Drying Nets Explained

Drying Nets
Artist:	Alfred Sisley
Year:	1872
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	42
Width Metric:	65
Dimensions Ref:	^[1]
Museum:	Kimbell Art Museum
City:	Fort Worth

Drying Nets or Fishermen Spreading Their Nets is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Kimbell Art Museum. The painting shows a scene near the village of Villeneuve-la-Garenne.^[2]

Like The Seine at Argenteuil painted the same year and The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand, it shows people at work on the River Seine near Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. These contrast with the many works by Sisley and the other Impressionists that show the Seine as a place of leisure.^[3]

See also

• List of paintings by Alfred Sisley

References

1. Web site: Drying Nets Kimbell Art Museum . Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas . 2023-12-04.
2. MaryAnne Stevens, De La Celle-Saint-Cloud à Louveciennes : 1865-1875. in Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 3 juillet-18 octobre 1992, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 28 octobre 1992-31 janvier 1993, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 14 mars-13 juin 1993, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992,, p. 116
3. Dominique Brachlianoff, Argenteuil, Louveciennes, Bougival [1870-1874], in Alfred Sisley, Ann Dumas, Alfred Sisley : poète de l'impressionnisme : [Exposition] Lyon, musée des beaux-arts, 10 octobre 2002-6 janvier 2003, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002,, p. 124