Sisley at Moret-sur-Loing
Alfred Sisley spent the last twenty years of his life around Moret-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris, and painted its river, canal and old bridge until he died.
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About the series
Sisley moved to Veneux-Nadon, on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, in 1880, then to Les Sablons and finally into Moret itself, where he died in 1899. Everything he painted was within walking distance: the Loing, the canal that runs beside it, and Saint-Mammes, where the Loing meets the Seine and barges waited at the locks.
He went back to the same few motifs in every season, often from almost the same spot: the bridge and mills at Moret in snow and at sunset, poplars along the bank, the canal on a grey winter morning. In 1893 and 1894 he painted the church of Notre-Dame at Moret more than a dozen times in changing light, in the same years Monet was painting Rouen Cathedral.
Most of these are wide river views under a high sky, which sit well above a sofa or a sideboard. The snow scenes are cooler and quieter than the summer ones.
