
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000770The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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