Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud | |
Artist: | Alfred Sisley |
Year: | 1865 |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 129 |
Width Metric: | 208 |
Dimensions Ref: | [1] |
Museum: | Petit Palais |
City: | Paris |
Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud (French: Allée de châtaigniers à La Celle-Saint-Cloud) or Edge of the Fontainebleau Forest (French: Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau|link=no) is an 1865 pre-Impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in the woods at La Celle-Saint-Cloud. It was refused by the Paris Salon of 1867 and bought by Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1877. It was acquired in 1919 by Joseph Duveen, who in 1921 gave it to the Petit Palais, where it still hangs.[2]