1874／Oil on canvas
60.0 x 73.0 cm
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum –
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 8, 2025
Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
SUMMARY
Louveciennes is a quiet village in the western suburbs of Paris, about 25 kilometers away from the center of Paris. With a peaceful scenery spreading out, this village used to be a perfect place for painting landscapes. Today, however, it has turned into a bedroom suburb whose residents commute to and from Paris. For several years before the first Impressionist exhibition in 1847, Impressionist painters often set up an easel to paint in the open air in this village. The first Impressionist painter who visited this village probably was Camille Pissarro, who moved from Pontoise to Louveciennes in the fall of 1868 and lived there until 1870, when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, and then again from 1871 to 1872. Pierre-Auguste Renoir also lived in Louveciennes for several years after 1868 since his mother moved nearby in 1868. In 1869, Monet moved to Bougival along with his mistress Camille and her son, and executed paintings there. It is probably around the early fall of the same year that Renoir and Monet closely worked together to execute paintings at La Grenouillère. Among others, a painter who had the deepest ties to Louveciennes was Alfred Sisley. The painter visited Renoir and Monet in the winter of 1869, and moved to Louveciennes in the next summer (1870). Sisley spent the first half of the 1870s in this place and executed paintings until he moved to Marly-le-Roi in 1875. During this period, Sisley painted the sceneries of Louveciennes with the soft impressionistic technique, capturing the atmosphere of this leafy, rugged, and diversified land with gentle brushworks. Even after he left Louveciennes, he visited the village again and again to paint many works filled with the senses of seasons. It is not certain whether the location depicted in this painting is a road running down from Versailles Avenue toward the watering place at Marly-le-Roi, or conversely, a view from a hill in Marly-le-Roi looking toward Louveciennes, but it seems to be a gentle downward slope running from the left to the right side of the painting. The curve line of the road curving to the right gives an important element to this picture. The three cows grazing on the pasture spreading across the foreground constitute the center of the picture. On the left next to the cows is a towering large tree, against the trunk of which a woman leans. Here, the characteristics seen in Sisley’s early works—the leaves of trees, summer skies and clouds, open spaces, curved paths, light and shadow, etc.—are vigorously represented, and the well-balanced beauty of the valeur (the correlations of hues, brightness, and intensity of the colours between each part of the painting) can be seen. It is likely that this work is one of the five landscape paintings that were exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in April 1874.
ARTIST
Alfred Sisley
1839-1899
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Provenance: Ernt Hoschedé, Paris Sale,Paris, 5-6 June 1878, lot 82 (as La Route de Marly,181 frs. to Dolfus) J.Dolfus-Zygomalas, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale Durand-Ruel, Paris (13874, as La route tournante) Mme. Alexandre Rosenberb,Paris Paul Rosenberg & Co. Paris and New York Exhibited: Paris, Durand-Ruel, Tableaux de Sisley, Feb. –March 1930, no.21
Literature: F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no.130 (illustrated)
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