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The Flood at Port Marly

Sisley, Alfred (painter)

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Title/s

The Flood at Port Marly

Maker/s

Sisley, Alfred (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1839-1899]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

French

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 46.1 cm
width: 55.9 cm

Date

1876

Provenance

given: Sykes, Stanley William 1958 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

bought from the artist by Messrs. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; M. Hirsch, Paris, his sale, Hotel Drouot, 5-6 July 1912, lot 47; M. Btot; M. Rochecourt; M. de Rochekourte, Paris; Etienne Bignou, Paris; with Messrs. Knoedler, New York; with Alex Reid and Lefèvre, London, from whom bought by Captain Sykes, 1929

Inscriptions/Marks

1. signature
   Position: lower right
   Method:
   Content: Sisley
   Interpretation:
   
2. date
   Position: lower right
   Method:
   Content: 76
   Interpretation:
   
3. label
   Position: verso, frame
   Method: printed label, with inscribed numbers
   Content: Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., (with title as above)
   Interpretation:
   
4. number
   Position: verso, frame
   Method:
   Content:
   Interpretation: presumably stock numbers
   
5. stencil
   Position: verso, canvas
   Method:
   Content: Latouche, rue de Lafayette, Paris (dealer in artists' materials)
   
6. label
   Position: verso, stretcher
   Method: numerous small labels, MS and printed
   Content: (bearing numbers which must be dealers' stock numbers, one repeated in blue chalk
   
7. stamp
   Position: verso, stretcher
   Content: Douane
   

Documentation

1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 108]
2. Daulte, François (1959) Alfred Sisley,
   [comments: no. 241]
3. Goodison, J.W. (1960) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, French, German and Spanish, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 196-197]
   [comments: pl. 104]
4. (1984) De Renoir à Vuillard Marly-Le-Roi, Louveciennes, Leurs environs..., [page: 126]
   [comments: reproduced, exhibition catalogue]
5. (1988) French Landscape Paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
   [comments: reproduced]

Accession Number

PD.69-1958 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2971; Input Date: 2000-03-15 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

Related Resources

French Impressionists - Online Exhibition

Education Resources - Factsheets (pdf)

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