1888, Alfred Sisley, The Banks of the Canal du Loing at Saint-Mammès -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: The Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley specialised in landscapes and river views. During the 1880s, he frequently painted Saint-Mammès, a village located where the Seine and Loing rivers meet. Writing to Monet in 1881, Sisley described the region saying - 'It's not a bad part of the world, rather a chocolate box landscape.' In this picture, he presents a direct view of the canal banks using varied brushstrokes. Small touches of intense colour convey the broken surface of the water, the orange tiled rooftops, the boatmen and their vessels, while longer crisscrossed strokes denote the straggling grasses in the foreground.
1888, Alfred Sisley, The Banks of the Canal du Loing at Saint-Mammès -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: The Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley specialised in landscapes and river views. During the 1880s, he frequently painted Saint-Mammès, a village located where the Seine and Loing rivers meet. Writing to Monet in 1881, Sisley described the region saying - 'It's not a bad part of the world, rather a chocolate box landscape.' In this picture, he presents a direct view of the canal banks using varied brushstrokes. Small touches of intense colour convey the broken surface of the water, the orange tiled rooftops, the boatmen and their vessels, while longer crisscrossed strokes denote the straggling grasses in the foreground.