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Cows in Pasture, Louveciennes
- 1874
- Oil on canvas
- 60.0 x 73.0 cm
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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.
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ARTIST
Alfred Sisley
(1839-1899)
Currently exhibiting
Sep 16, 2023 (Sat)
～Dec 10, 2023 (Sun)
Name of Exhibition :
Permanent Exhibition: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century—500 Years of Western Paintings
Place of Exhibition :
Permanent Exhibition Gallery 3
Exhibit history
- Jul 28, 2023 (Fri)～Aug 27, 2023 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Modern Eastern and Western Painting Exhibition Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (Ishikawa, Japan) - Sep 17, 2022 (Sat)～Nov 20, 2022 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings - Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum - Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan) - Jul 16, 2022 (Sat)～Sep 4, 2022 (Sun)
Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art (Kumamoto, Japan) - Mar 19, 2022 (Sat)～May 8, 2022 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan) - Oct 23, 2021 (Sat)～Dec 26, 2021 (Sun)
The 400 Years of Western Painting: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan) - Jul 9, 2021 (Fri)～Aug 29, 2021 (Sun)
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan) - Dec 15, 2020 (Tue)～Jan 31, 2021 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Sep 12, 2020 (Sat)～Nov 3, 2020 (Tue)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan) - Jul 22, 2020 (Wed)～Sep 6, 2020 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) - Feb 20, 2020 (Thu)～Apr 12, 2020 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan) - Sep 3, 2019 (Tue)～Oct 22, 2019 (Tue)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan) - Jan 12, 2019 (Sat)～May 4, 2019 (Sat)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China) - Oct 23, 2018 (Tue)～Dec 23, 2018 (Sun)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China) - Jul 9, 2016 (Sat)～Aug 28, 2016 (Sun)
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) - Jan 9, 2016 (Sat)～Feb 7, 2016 (Sun)
UKIYOE JAPONISM: The Impressionist was fascinated by UKIYOE Hishikawa Moronobu Memorial Museum (Chiba, Japan) - Sep 20, 2015 (Sun)～Nov 15, 2015 (Sun)
Sisley Nerima Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) - Jun 27, 2015 (Sat)～Aug 30, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan) - Apr 29, 2015 (Wed)～Jun 21, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan) - Mar 11, 2014 (Tue)～May 11, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan) - Jan 15, 2014 (Wed)～Mar 2, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy Fukuoka City Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Dec 23, 2008 (Tue)～Feb 8, 2009 (Sun)
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan) - Jul 14, 2007 (Sat)～Nov 25, 2007 (Sun)
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan) - Apr 18, 2003 (Fri)～May 25, 2003 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Oct 12, 2002 (Sat)～Nov 24, 2002 (Sun)
Impressionists and their epoch : from Monet to Cézanne The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Saitama, Japan) - Sep 7, 2002 (Sat)～Oct 6, 2002 (Sun)
Impressionists and their epoch : from Monet to Cézanne Akita Museum of Modern Art (Akita, Japan) - Jun 7, 2002 (Fri)～Jun 23, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan) - May 11, 2002 (Sat)～Jun 2, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan) - Apr 13, 2002 (Sat)～May 6, 2002 (Mon)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Oct 1, 2000 (Sun)～Dec 3, 2000 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) - Mar 2, 2000 (Thu)～Apr 17, 2000 (Mon)
Alfred Sisley Exhibition Isetan Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan) - Jun 24, 1995 (Sat)～Sep 3, 1995 (Sun)
French Impressionism: Symphony of Light and Color Santillana Foundation (Santillana, Spain) - Sep 20, 1994 (Tue)～Nov 27, 1994 (Sun)
Paris in 1874: The Year of Impressionism The National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan) - Mar 3, 1994 (Thu)～Mar 31, 1994 (Thu)
The West and Japan in Modern Japan: Masterpieces from the Collections of Museums Across Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) - Oct 16, 1992 (Fri)～Nov 5, 1992 (Thu)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China) - Nov 3, 1990 (Sat)～Dec 2, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea) - Sep 22, 1990 (Sat)～Oct 21, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Origin of collections
- 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
Reference
F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no.130 (illustrated)
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