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The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant
Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun
The Road from Moret to Saint-Mammès
The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 824
Sisley produced his most celebrated canvases in and around Marly-le-Roi in 1876. This view, painted at neighboring Bougival—a town along the Seine, just west of Paris—probably dates from early autumn, since the leaves have just begun to thin and turn yellow.
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Sisley. 76
[Georges Petit, Paris]; [Bonnemaison collection, Paris]; [Galerie Schmit, Paris]; [Galerie Nathan, Zürich,?by late 1960s, sold to Polak]; Mrs. H. A. Polak, Amsterdam ?(from early 1970s); [Arthur Tooth, London, until 1976; sale, Sotheby's, London, April 7, 1976, no. 5, to Dillon]; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon (from 1976)
Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Cent tableaux par Boudin, Jongkind, Lépine et Sisley," January–February 1903, no. 93 [see Ref. Sotheby's 1976].
Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922–1972. Zürich, 1972, unpaginated, no. 71, ill. (color). Gary Tinterow in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1991–1992." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 50 (Fall 1992), p. 48, ill. (color), believes it was probably painted in early autumn.
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