Sisley at Moret

 The Church at Moret: Evening

Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris

This postcard dates from about 1896/1899

-undivided back/République Française.Roughly contemporary with the Sisley paintings.

As you can see,both Sisley and the photographer stood in more or less the same spot to make their images.No influence is implied either way. One of the most consistently Impressionist of the Impressionists, Alfred Sisley spent the last years of his career at Moret-sur-Loing near Fontainebleau.Perhaps it was this consistency of outlook which caused Camille Pissarro to name him, when asked for an example, as a typical impressionist.The very late series of paintings of the church is one of Sisley's finest groups.They are comparable in quality to Pissarro's work at Rouen and perhaps also to those by Monet from the same city.Actually,in some ways I think I like them better than the Monet's.

In the UK there is a fine example at the Glasgow and another at Birmingham.

This is the Glasgow painting.

In the card above, you can see on the right, the wooden structure of the Provencher watermill which appears in many of Sisley's works.