Attributed to Alfred Sisley, it does not have a COA. Medium: oil canvas. Frame: 36 x 27 inches, painting: 31 x 22 inches. Provenance: private owner. It needs restoration, please refer to photos for more details.
Biography: 1839 - 1899. An impressionist landscape painter early influenced by the Barbizon School, Alfred Sisley was born in Paris to English parents. The father was a successful business person whose company traded with American southern states. His parents sent him to London to train for business, but disliking that pursuit, Sisley, in 1862, returned to Paris and, with his family's support, enrolled at the Académie Gleyre. There he met future impressionists Jean Renoir, Camille Pizarro, and Claude Monet, and they met at the Café Guerbois with Paul Manet. During these conversations, Sisley took the rule of neutral mediator and did paintings that showed strong Barbizon School influence, especially of Camille Corot. But during these discussions, Monet developed his theories that evolved into Impressionism. After the 1863 exhibition at the Salon des Refusés where Monet's paintings and those works similar to Monet's received the description of Impressionists from a critic, Sisley left Paris with Monet, and they lived in the suburbs and painted together.At first Sisley's paintings from these excursions seemed much influenced by the Barbizon painting of Camille Corot and Charles Daubigny, and exhibiting in 1867 at the Paris Salon, he still showed much Barbizon influence. However, by 1870, his paintings had the quickly executed, short brushstrokes of Impressionism, but his work differed from Monet's because he was much more interested in depicting realistic images rather than in Monet's technique of images dissolving into light and atmospherics. Sisley loved cloud-filled skyscapes, shimmering water and foliage changing colors with the season, and he spent much time in the area of Ile-de-France because it offered the images he loved. During the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Sisley spent time in London and through Pizarro, met the art dealer Durand-Ruel, with whom he formed a marketing agreement for his work. Because of the war, Sisley's father had lost his business, and without funds, Sisley, for the first time, became anxious to sell his paintings. To that point, Sisley had not been interested in selling his paintings, and because of pursuing this activity later than his peers, his prices were lower than their throughout his life.In 1876, he moved to the small village of Moret-sur-Loing, and to the house where he died of cancer twenty-three years later. The town dated to medieval times and changed little in appearance from that period. Because of its charm, Sisley's painting friends including Monet and Renoir also loved to work in that location.By the time of his move to Moret-sur-Loing, Sisley was part of the Impressionist painting group and exhibited with them in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882. Monet had the dominating influence on him, but from Corot, he retained an ongoing interest in skyscapes and seasonal changes of color. For Sisley, snowscenes also became a favorite subject.

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