Sisley at Louveciennes
Louveciennes, a village on the hills west of Paris, gave Sisley the quiet lanes and early snowfalls that run through his paintings of the 1870s.
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About the series
Sisley settled at Voisins, a hamlet of Louveciennes, in the early 1870s, after the Franco-Prussian War had ruined his father's business and left him to live from painting. Renoir's parents lived in the village and Pissarro had painted there just before, so the Impressionists already knew its roads well.
His subjects are small and close to home: a road between garden walls, the vines on the slope, a kitchen garden, a neighbour's street after the first snow. Snow at Louveciennes, a single figure walking down a white lane under a low sky, is in the Musée d'Orsay. Early Snow at Louveciennes is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Many of these canvases are modest in size, with a road or path leading the eye in, which works well in a hallway or on a narrow wall.
