Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau . Paris Musées.
  2. Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette, Origins of Impressionism, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 461-462