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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.206
People
Alfred Sisley, British (Paris 1839 - 1899 Moret-sur-Loing)
Title
The Bridge at Villeneuve-La-Garenne
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Pont de Conflans a Moret / Pont sur la Marne
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1872
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230254

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.8 x 61 cm (20 3/8 x 24 in.)
framed: 63 x 72 cm (24 13/16 x 28 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Sisley

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Sisley, sold; to [Durand-Ruel, Paris] (1872-1928), sold; to [Alexander Reid, Glasgow],(1928); [Reid and Lefevre], London, sold; to [Etienne Bignou, Paris], 1929. Émile Laffon, Paris. [Wildenstein and Co., New York], sold; to Grenville L. WInthrop (1939-1942) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Notes:

Per archivist at Reid and Lefevre (see correspondence in curatorial file), Bignou and Reid and Lefevre were affiliated.
Winthrop paid $12,500.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.206
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arsène Alexandre, "La Collection E. L.", La Renaissance (October 1933 - November 1933), vol. XVI, p. 182, repr. p. 190
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
  • François Daulte, "Decouverte de Sisley", Connaissance des Arts (February 1957), no. 60, repr. p. 49
  • François Daulte, Alfred Sisley Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Peint, Editions Durand-Ruel (Paris, France, 1959), no. 38, repr. in b/w
  • James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), pp. 65-66, cat. 28, ill.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 129, repr. as no. 338
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 20-21
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 130, pp. 310-311, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 130, pp. 318-319, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Sisley, Durand-Ruel [New York], New York, 01/08/1921 - 01/22/1921
  • Sisley, Durand-Ruel [New York], New York, 04/19/1927 - 05/03/1927
  • Tableaux de Sisley, Durand-Ruel Paris, Paris, 02/22/1930 - 03/13/1930
  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

Verification Level

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