Villeneuve-la-Garenne (painting)

Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Village Beside the Seine or Village on the Seine is an 1872 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.

References
  1. 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
  2. François Blondel, Alfred Sisley, p. ii
  3. Richard Shone, Éditions Phaidon, ISBN 0714894117, 2004, p. 51
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