Characteristic of Sisley's painting is a subtle use of colour and a unity of contours, which distinguishes his style from the dissolving forms of his friend Monet, with whom he is still often compared today.Īlfred Sisley became famous for his depiction of the Saint Martin Canal in Paris, the aqueduct at Port Marly and the bridge at Moret sur Loing, the small town where he died in 1899 at the age of 60. The Seine riverbank and the villages of the Île-de-France as well as the forest of Fontainebleau, generally very popular with the artists of his time, formed the centre of his motifs. Influenced by the style of the English landscape painters William Turner and John Constable, he nevertheless developed in the following years into one of the most important pioneers of French Impressionism. After his family lost their fortune in the Franco-Prussian War, Sisley was forced to earn his living from 1870 onwards by selling his works. He studied in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. For the remainder of his life he would live in poverty, as his paintings did not rise significantly in monetary value until after his death. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, and Neue Pinakothek in Munich, among others.The son of English immigrants, who never received the recognition he deserved during his lifetime, is today considered one of the most important representatives of French Impressionism.īorn in Paris in 1839, Sisley, after a commercial apprenticeship in London, devoted himself exclusively to painting from the age of 23. He died in Moret-sur-Loing, France on Januat the age of 59. Despite his commitment to the Impressionist style, Sisley’s works never gained the same recognition as his colleagues Monet and Renoir.
Together the young painters traveled to forests outside of Paris and began producing paintings en plein air (in open air).
Returning to Paris in 1860, he studied under the painter Charles Gleyre alongside Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Sent to London by his father in 1857 to study commerce, Sisley neglected his work and often visited the city’s museums, where he saw the works of John Constable and J.M.W. “By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.” Born on Octoin Paris, France to British parents, he retained his parents’ nationality even as he lived the majority of his life in France. 899: Alfred Sisley 1892 Etching Landscape in Louveciennes. “The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder,” he once remarked. Hand Pulled Copper plate etchingwith drypoint, printed in Sepia ink, on cream laid pa. Sisley's Snow at Louveciennes (1878), is emblematic of the movement’s attempt to register fleeting effects of weather and light. Alfred Sisley was a French-born British painter and founding member of Impressionism.
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