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Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was the most committed Impressionist, remaining faithful to the tenets of direct painting from nature until his death in 1899. His approach to the landscape Impression was graphic rather than painterly: with the exception of a few paintings from the 1870s composed in slabs of color, Sisley preferred to construct his landscapes with small brushes, creating hundreds, sometimes thousands, of colored lines on the canvas, as in The By Road at Roches-Courtaut Woods; St. Martin's Summer. Unlike other Impressionists, Sisley often planned his landscape compositions with pencil and paper before quickly tackling them with canvas, brush, and paint. Sisley's Impressions, such as The Fourteenth of July at Marly-le-Roi and The Seine at Billancourt, with their frenzied and vibrant strokes of color, are some of the boldest works in the exhibition.