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    The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand
    Alfred Sisley. The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000770

    The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand

    by Alfred Sisley

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: Sisley. 75

    Provenance

    Georges Viau, Paris; his sale, Galeries Durand-Ruel, March 4, 1907, lot 74 (ill.), as La Seine à Port-Marly, 1875; bought in by Durand-Ruel [acc. to London 1992]. Georges Bernheim, Paris, April 1920 [acc. to archival Registrar card]; Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, June 11, 1920 [acc. to Ryerson purchase book; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, A. Sisley, February 1897, cat. 19. Paris, Exposition Centennale de L’Art Français, 1800-1889, 1900, cat. 614, as La Seine à Port-Marly, 1875, appartient à M. George Viau. Paris, Georges Petit, Exposition d’oeuvres d’Alfred Sisley, May 7-June 1917, cat. 64. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 302, as Sand Heaps, 1875. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 262. Park Forest, Ill, Exhibition, March 25-April 22, 1956, no cat. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, cat. 17 (ill.), as Les Tas de sable, 1875. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago / Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28 - September 6, 1984 / October 23, 1984 - January 6, 1985 / February 8 - April 2, 1985, cat. 23 (ill.), as The Seine of Port Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Alfred Sisley, July 3-October 18, 1992, cat. 33, as The Seine at Port-Marly: Heaps of Sand, 1875; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, October 26, 1992-February 7, 1993; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, March 14-'june 13, 1993. Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, September 21-February 9, 1997, no cat. no., pl.45, as The Seine of Port Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875. Tokyo, Isetan Museum, Alfred Sisley Retrospective, March 2- April 17, 2000; Takamatsu City Art Museum, Kagawa, April 22- May 21, 2000; Hiroshima Museum of Art, May 27- July 2, 2000; The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, July 8- September 10, 2000. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 16 (ill.).

    Publications

    François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Lausanne, 1959), no. 176. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 83 (ill.), 286. Stevens, MaryAnne. 2010. “Alfred Sisley – Ecology.” In From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism. Exh. cat., pp 78, 80. Skira. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 16, p. 53(ill.).

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)
    Date
    1875
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    54.5 × 73.7 cm (21 7/16 × 29 in.); Framed: 71.5 × 90.5 × 9.6 cm (28 1/8 × 35 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1177

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