Seine at Grenelle (La Seine à Grenelle)

Seine at Grenelle (La Seine à Grenelle)

1878
Artist
Alfred Sisley, 1839-1899
Work Locations: France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1936.60
Credit Line
Funds from Helen Dill bequest

Alfred Sisley, Seine at Grenelle (La Seine à Grenelle), 1878. Oil paint on canvas; 18 ¾ × 21 ½ in. (47.6 × 54.6 cm). Funds from Helen Dill bequest, 1936.60

Dimensions
image height: 18 3/4 in, 47.6250 cm; image width: 21 1/2 in, 54.6100 cm; frame height: 24 in, 60.9600 cm; frame width: 27 1/4 in, 69.2150 cm; frame depth: 2 1/2 in, 6.3500 cm
Inscription
[lower left] Sisley
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Purchase from the artist, (Durand-Ruel, Paris), January 26, 1884. Paul Aubry [b.1842–?], Paris; sale, (Galerie Georges Petit), May 10, 1897, no. 28; purchase, (Durand-Ruel, Paris), May 10, 1897, stock no. 4219; purchase, (Durand-Ruel, New York), August 28, 1936, stock no. 5314; purchase, Denver Art Museum, August 28, 1936.
Exhibition History
  • "Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir & Sisley"—Durand-Ruel, Paris, 04/1899, no. 133
  • "Exhibition of Paintings by Sisley"—Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 11/11/1935 - 11/30/1935, no. 2
  • "Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Alfred Sisley, 1839—1899"— Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 10/30/1961 - 11/25/1961, no. 11
  • "Sisley"—Wildenstein & Co., New York, 10/27/1966 - 12/03/1966, no. 36
  • "Painting in Paris, 1840–1950"—Denver Art Museum, 01/30/1993–05/30/1993, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 07/30/1993–09/12/1993, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 09/17/1993–11/28/1993
  • "Centenaire Sisley Retrospective Japan"—Isetan Museum, Tokyo, 03/02/2000 - 04/17/2000
  • Takamatsu City Art Museum, 04/22/2000 - 05/21/2000
  • Hiroshima Museum of Art, 05/27/00 - 07/02/2000
  • "Alfred Sisley: Poet of Impressionism"—Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 06/06/2002 - 09/15/2002
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 10/09/2002 - 01/06/2003
  • "L’Impressionnisme vu d’Amérique"—Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 06/09/2007 - 09/09/2007
  • Musée de Grenoble, 10/19/2007 - 01/20/2008
  • "Alfred Sisley - The True Impressionist"—Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany, 09/13/2011 - 01/29/2012
  • "Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013 - 02/09/2014
  • "Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist Master"—The Bruce Museum, 01/21/2017 - 05/21/2017
  • Hôtel de Caumont, Centre d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, 06/10/2017 - 10/08/2017