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Saint-Mammès, Loing Canal

Saint-Mammès, Loing Canal

1885
(French, 1840–1899)
France, 19th century
oil on fabric
Unframed: 46.6 x 55.8 cm (18 3/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams from The Blair Trust 1961.262
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The son of an affluent British businessman, Alfred Sisley was born in Paris and became friendly with fellow students Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Frédéric Bazille while studying in the studio of Charles Gleyre during the early 1860s.

Description

The small town of Saint-Mammès is located about forty miles south of Paris, where the Seine and Loing rivers are joined by a canal. Alfred Sisley was fond of the area and often painted there in the 1880s, undoubtedly attracted by the low rents, since his poverty had become chronic in the wake of the bankruptcy and death of his father. Sisley rendered this view of the Saint-Mammès-Loring canal with a classic Impressionist technique, using pure color and soft, flickering brushwork that dissolves forms into a haze of optical sensations approximating the effect of brilliant, outdoor light.
  • Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 638) on 21 January 1885. Deposited with Joseph Durand-Ruel, 35 Rue de Rome, on 25 February 1885. Bought from Paul Durand-Ruel by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 1442) on 25 August 1891. Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 1888). Sold on 10 November 1926 to Lewis B. Williams, New York. Given to the CMA in 1961.
  • “Annual Report for 1961.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 6 (June 1962): 115–145. Reproduced: Cover www.jstor.org
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 172 archive.org
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    Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 593-595, Vol. II, no. 208
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  • Sisley. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (July 3-October 18, 1992); Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (October 28, 1992-January 31, 1993); Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (March 14-June 13, 1993).
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    シスレー展 (Alfred Sisley Retrospective). Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Toyko, Japan (March 7-April 14, 1985); Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (April 18-May 12, 1985); Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Nara, Japan (May 18-June 30, 1985).
    Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Nara Prefectural Museum. Retrospective Alfred Sisley (1985), no. 37, 169 (repr.).
    Paris autour de 1882 (Paris around 1882). Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu City, Japan (organizer) (November 3-December 19, 1982); Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (January 15-February 20, 1983).
    Gifu (Japan) Museum of Fine Arts; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art. Paris autour de 1882 (1982-83), no. 89, fig. 89.
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    New York, Durand-Ruel. Exhibition of Paintings by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley (1925), no. 15, St. Mammès.
    New York, Durand-Ruel. Exhibition of Paintings by Alfred Sisley (1921), no. 18, St. Mammès.
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