Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000939Watering Place at Marly
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Sisley. 75
Provenance
Louis Flornoy, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 10, 1905, lot 40 for 5350 fr. to Camentron; M. L. Camentron, Paris. Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York [acc. to Daulte 1959]. M. Ziegler [according to Daulte 1959]. Possibly Wildenstein and Co., New York [Wildenstein valued the painting in 1971 and the Runnells purchased many paintings through them]; Mrs. Clive Runnells, Lake Forest, Illinois by 1971; given to the Art Institute, December 1971 [half-interest acquired by the AIC].
Exhibition history
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, no. 21. Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18 - December 17, 1985 / January 5 - February 2, 1986 / March 4 - April 13, 1986, no. 23. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 15 (ill.).
Publications
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Lausanne, 1959), no. 169. S. Gache-Patin, Sisley (Paris, 1983), pp. 82, 156, no. 113. D. Bomford, et. al., Art in the Making: Impressionism (New Haven and London, 1991), pl. 131, p. 48. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 15, p. 52 (ill.). Sciama, Cyrille, et. al., "Nantes 1886: Le Scandale Impressionniste," Exh, cat. (Musée d'Arts de Nantes/Le Passage, 2018) pp. 99-101, #8
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
- 39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 80.7 × 9.6 cm (25 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells
- Accession no.
- 1971.875
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