The Loing and the Mills of Moret, Snow Effect

1891

Sisley probably painted this snowy landscape outdoors in a single session during the unusually cold winter of 1891. Poplars cast long blue shadows across the riverbank—their trunks reflected in the icy water—while wispy clouds float across the blue sky. The artist used a cool, silvery palette and applied paint in thin, liquid strokes to convey the crisp atmosphere of a winter’s day.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	23 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. (58.7 x 81.6 cm) Frame: 32 1/2 x 41 1/4 in. (82.6 x 104.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.545
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Alfred Sisley, The Loing and the Mills of Moret, Snow Effect, 1891, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.545

Select Bibliography

François Daulte.. Alfred Sisley.. Lausanne: Durand-Ruel.. 1959.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Milwaukee Art Museum. 1888: Frederic Layton and His World. Exhibition catalogue. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988. George Heard Hamilton.. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art.. New York: Abrams.. 1970.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

[Possibly Marie Harriman Gallery, New York]¹; Gerald Brooks, New York; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 1 Apr. 1946, as Paysage, effet de Neige]; Robert Sterling Clark (1946–55 ; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. A label on the back of the painting from the Harriman Gallery suggests that it may have been owned by the gallery, or simply exhibited there. The gallery was in business between 1930 and 1942.