Villeneuve-la-Garenne (painting)
Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Village Beside the Seine or Village on the Seine is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
History
Sisley visited Villeneuve-la-Garenne, producing at least five paintings there.[1][2] Its composition recalls that of The Seine at Bennecourt (1868; Art Institute of Chicago) by Sisley's friend Claude Monet.[1] Just out of frame to the left is the town's bridge, the subject of Sisley's The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]).
Sisley sold it to Paul Durand-Ruel on 24 August 1872.[1] It was acquired in 1898 by Pyotr Shchukin of Moscow,[1] then by Sergei Shchukin in 1912.[1] After the October Revolution of 1918 it entered the Museum of Western Modern Art, before moving to its present home in 1948.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 MaryAnne Stevens, Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 3 July-18 October 1992, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 28 October 1992-31 January 1993, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 14 March-13 June 1993, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992, p. 120
- ↑ François Blondel, Alfred Sisley, p. ii
- ↑ Richard Shone, Éditions Phaidon, ISBN 0714894117, 2004, p. 51
