Villeneuve-la-Garenne (painting)

Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Artist	Alfred Sisley
Year	1872
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	59 cm × 80.5 cm (23 in × 31.7 in)[1]
Location	Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Village Beside the Seine or Village on the Seine is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.[1]

History

Sisley visited Villeneuve-la-Garenne, producing at least five paintings there.[2][3] Its composition recalls that of The Seine at Bennecourt (1868; Art Institute of Chicago) by Sisley's friend Claude Monet.[2] Just out of frame to the left is the town's bridge, the subject of Sisley's The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Metropolitan Museum of Art[4]).

Sisley sold it to Paul Durand-Ruel on 24 August 1872.[2] It was acquired in 1898 by Pyotr Shchukin of Moscow,[2] then by Sergei Shchukin in 1912.[2] After the October Revolution of 1918 it entered the Museum of Western Modern Art, before moving to its present home in 1948.

See also

• List of paintings by Alfred Sisley

References

1. "Art works - Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Village on the Seine)". The State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
2. MaryAnne Stevens, Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 3 July-18 October 1992, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 28 October 1992-31 January 1993, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 14 March-13 June 1993, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992, p. 120
3. François Blondel, Alfred Sisley, p. ii
4. Richard Shone, Éditions Phaidon, ISBN 0714894117, 2004, p. 51