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Saint Mammès,
1885
Alfred Sisley, 1839–1899; born Paris, France; died Moret-sur-Loing, France
1997-11
This is one of a series of closely related paintings Sisley made in 1885 to record different views around Saint-Mammès, the port town where the Loing Canal, connecting the Seine and Saône Rivers, flows into the Seine. Sisley’s views of the area around the junction of river and canal concentrate on the luminosity of the vast sky and the wispy clouds rather than the low buildings and commercial barge traffic.
Information
Title
Saint Mammès
Dates
1885
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
framed: 79.7 x 98.7 x 8.3 cm (31 3/8 x 38 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of S. Barksdale Penick Jr., Class of 1925
Object Number
1997-11
Place Depicted
Europe, France, Île-de-France, Saint Mammès
Signatures
Signed and dated, lower right: Sisley 85
Culture
Type
Subject
Durand-Ruel, Paris, photo 8594; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente de Tableaux Modernes, 20 March 1935, no. 88; Sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 29 March 1971 (as Le Loing à Saint Mammès); Galerie René Drouet, Paris; purchased by donor from Hirschl and Adler Gallery, Oct. 16, 1971.
- Exposition de peinture française: de l'impressionisme à nos jours, (Lyon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1942)., no. 40
- Gotthard Jedlicka, Sisley, (Bern, Switzerland: Alfred Scherz, 1949)., pl. 35
- François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, (Lausanne: Éditions Durand-Rue, 1959)., pl. 598
- Retrospective of a gallery: twenty years, (New York: Hirschle & Adler, 1973)., fig. 82 (color)
- Jill Guthrie, ed., In celebration: works of art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1997)., p. 366
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 187
- Sylvain Amic, Éblouissants reflets: cent chefs-d'oeuvre impressionnistes: [exposition], Rouen, Musée des beaux-arts, 29 avril-30 septembre 2013, (Rouen: Musées de la Ville de Rouen; Paris: Éd. de la Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, 2013)., p. 229, cat. no. 105 (illus.)
- Rachael Z. DeLue et al., Cézanne and the Modern: masterworks of European art from the Pearlman Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014)., Fig. 65
