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Key Dates: Alfred Sisley
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1839
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Born in Paris of English parents |
1857-62
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Sent to London to Study Commerce, but prefers National Gallery paintings especially Turner and Constable |
1862
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Returns to Paris and enters Gleyre's studio where he meets Monet, Renoir and Bazille |
1866
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goes painting to Milly with Renoir. Two works accepted by the Paris Saloon. Set up home with Marie Lescouezec
first child Jennie is born |
1867
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Work rejected by Saloon. Birth of son Pierre |
1870
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Two works excepted by Saloon. Franco-Prussian War starts. Paris under siege, Bazille is killed, farther dies
resulting in financial ruin. Exhibits The Canal Saint-Martin |
1872
1873-4
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1872 Exhibits Footbridge at Argenteuil. Paints The Seine at Bougival. The Square at Argenteuil
Exhibits five works with Durand-Ruel in London. forms Society Amonyme des artistes, exhibits in there show.
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1879
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Not excepted in any exhibition Sisley is destitute and evicted from his home |
1881
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Durand-Ruel back on his feet start to buy paintings |
1883
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One man show in Durand-Ruel's Paris gallery |
1885
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15 works in first New York Impressionist exhibition,1886 paints
Canal at St-Mammès |
1888
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Summer exhibition in Paris gallery, French state buys September Morning |
1890
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Elected to Societe National des Beaux-Arts |
1895
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Confined to home at Moret because of illness, shows 8 works at Saloon |
1897
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Goes to England, paints 8 pictures. Returns to Moret paints last 3 paintings |
1898
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Wife dies of throat cancer later the same year Sisley also has throat cancer |
1899
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January 29th, Sisley dies aged 59 |
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Moret-sur-Loing
1891 Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm; |
The Canal of Loing at Moret
1892; Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Station at Sevres,1879 Oil on canvas, 15 x 22 cm; |
- Alfred Sisley, The Square at Argenteuil, 1872, Musee D'Orsay
Alfred Sisley, The Square at Argenteuil, 1872, Musee D'Orsay
- Alfred Sisley, Footbridge at Argenteuil, 1872, Musee D'Orsay
Alfred Sisley, Footbridge at Argenteuil, 1872, Musee D'Orsay
- Alfred Sisley L'automne: Bords de la Seine prs Bougival
Alfred Sisley L'automne: Bords de la Seine prs Bougival (Autumn: Banks of the Seine near Bougival
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Alfred Sisley, (1839-1899), French landscape painter, born in Paris of English parents. He was a pupil in the
studio of the Swiss painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre, where he met Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir. With them,
he became one of the founders of the Impressionist school of painting. Although Sisley's work attracted little
attention in his lifetime, its importance has since been recognized. Sisley's gentle, idyllic paintings, mainly of
scenes near Paris, reveal the lifelong influence of Camille Corot, especially in their soft, harmonious
colours.
 He had started to frequent the Café Guerbois, and was becoming more deeply influenced by the notions
which were creating Impressionism. During the Franco-Prussian war and the period of the Commune, he spent some time
in London and was introduced to Durand-Ruel by Pissarro, becoming part of that dealer's stable. In the mean time,
his father had lost all his money as a result of the war, and Sisley, with a family to support, was reduced to a
state of penury, in which he was to stay until virtually the end of his life.
He now saw himself as a full-time professional painter and part of the Impressionist group, exhibiting with them in
1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882. His work had by this time achieved complete independence from the early influences that had
affected him. In the 1870s he produced a remarkable series of landscapes of Argenteuil, where he was living, one of
which, The Bridge at Argenteuil 1872 was bought by Manet. Towards the end of the decade Monet was beginning
to have a considerable influence on him, and a series of landscape paintings of the area around Paris, including Marly,
Bougival and Louveciennes. Floods at Port-Marly shows the way in which his dominant and evident lyricism
still respects the demands of the subject-matter. From his early admiration for Corot he retained a passionate interest
in the sky, which nearly always dominates his paintings, and also in the effects of snow, the two interests often
combining to create a strangely dramatic effect Snow at Véneux. Naturally different, he did not
promote himself in the way that some of his fellow Impressionists did, and it was only towards the end of his life, when
he was dying of cancer of the throat, that he received something approaching the recognition he deserved.
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Garden Path in Louveciennes (Chemin de l'Etarche)
1873 Oil on canvas, 64 x 46 cm; Private collection |
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L'automne: Bords de la Seine pres Bougival
1873 Oil on canvas, 46 x 62 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal |
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Alfred Sisley The Seine at Bougival, 1873
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