拍品 156
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ALFRED SISLEY | Le Barrage de la machine à Marly

估價
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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描述

  • Attributed to Alfred Sisley
  • Le Barrage de la machine à Marly
  • Signed Sisley and dated 73 (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 15 by 24 1/8 in.
  • 38 by 61.4 cm
  • Painted in 1873.

來源

Mme G. Morris, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Jules Allard et Fils, Paris
Meyer Goodfriend, New York (and sold: American Art Association, New York, January 4 & 5, 1923, lot 79)
Carl Kaufman, New York
Schoeneman Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, January 25, 1956, lot 91)
Stephen Hahn Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Caracas
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Sair, Winnipeg, Manitoba (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., December 9, 1959, lot 67)
French Art Galleries (acquired at the above sale)
Gallery Sakai, Tokyo
Acquired from the above

出版

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 70, illustrated n.p.

Condition

The canvas has been lined and the tacking edge reinforced. The surface is clean and the pigments are bright. Under Uv light, there are some fine strokes of inpainting throughout the sky, mostly on the right side of the composition. There are also a few strokes of inpainting in the roof of the house on the right and a couple minor strokes in the hills in the center of the composition. The work is in good condition.
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拍品資料及來源

Painted at the height of Sisley’s career in 1873, Le Barrage de la machine à Marly is emblematic of the artist’s tranquil, reflective landscapes. A short walk from Sisley’s 1870s home in the Paris suburb of Louveciennes, the machine de Marly was part of a grand hydraulic system built at the request of King Louis XIV to deliver water from the Seine to the Palace of Versailles. Although the machine had been out of commission since the late eighteenth century, tourists and artists alike continued to flock to the sight into the nineteenth century. “Thomas Girtin was among them, and drew both the aqueduct and the Machine in 1803. Later, Turner made a water color [sic] of the machine with a fashionable crowd of people on the bank of the Seine. In early works by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, the aqueduct straddles the distant hills” (Richard Shone, Sisley, New York, 1992, p. 81). Sisley painted the aqueducts and the machine several times in the 1870s, but in these works, he highlighted the architecture of the structures (see fig. 1). In the present work, however, Sisley focuses on the surrounding landscape, paying great attention to the light and colors of the riverbank and leaving the spectacle of the machine nestled behind vegetation in the background.



This work will be included in the new edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of Alfred Sisley by François Daulte now being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau for the Comité Alfred Sisley.