Church at Moret after the Rain

1894

Alfred Sisley French, 1839-1899

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About the Artwork

Title Church at Moret after the Rain

Artwork Date 1894

Artist Alfred Sisley

Life Dates 1839-1899

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 28 3/4 × 23 3/4 inches (73 × 60.3 cm) Framed: 38 × 32 3/4 × 3 5/8 inches (96.5 × 83.2 × 9.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 20.114

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Signed Signed, lower left: Sisley-94

Provenance

May 1, 1899, auction atelier of Aldred Sisley by (Georges Petit, Paris, France), lot 14;
collection Léon Payen (Paris, France);
June 29-30, 1916, auctioned by (Hotel Drouot, Paris, France), lot 107;
June 29-30, 1916, purchased by (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA);
1920-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Poland, R. "French Impressionistic Paintings Acquired," Bulletin of the DIA 2, no. 8 (1921): pp. 70-73; p. 73.

Réau, Louis. L'Art Français aux Etats-Unis. Paris, 1926, p. 164.

Geffroy, G. Sisley. Paris, 1927, pl. 55.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 214, (repr.).

Heil, W. Exhibition of French Paintings 15th Century to Present Day. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, June-July, 1934, p. 61, cat. 152.

Duret, Th. Histoire des Peintres impressionnistes. Paris, 1939, p. 86, (repr.).

Newberry, J. S., Jr. The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, May 1940, cat. 42.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 1123, no. 214.

Nineteenth Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Saginaw Museum. Saginaw, MI, December 11, 1948-January 9, 1949, cat. 27, (repr.).

Reuterswaert, O. "Sisley's Cathedrals, A study of the Church at Moret series," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th Period, vol. 39, no. 6 (March 1952): pp. 193-202, esp. p. 195, 196-197, (fig. 2).

The Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin. Detroit, 1954, pp. 32, 39, cat. 57, (repr.) [intro. by P. L. Grigaut].

Daulte, F. "Découverte de Sisley," Connaissance des Arts, vol. 60 (February 1957): pp. 47-53, esp. p. 53, (repr.).

Daulte, F. Alfred Sisley Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint. Lausanne, 1959, p. 195, no. 836, (repr.).

Treasures from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, p. 219.

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899). Sales cat., Paul Rosenberg & Co. New York, October 1961, pp. 5, 15, cat. 21, (repr.).

Impressionism and Its Roots. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Gallery of Art. Iowa City, November 8-December 6, 1964, pp. 6, 57, cat. 23, (repr.) [intro. by F. Sieberling].

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., "

Sisley. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, October 26-December 3, 1966, cat. 67, (repr.) [unpaginated, exh. organized by F. Daulte].

Cogniat, R. Sisley. New York, 1978, pl. 83.

Shone, R. Sisley. Oxford, 1979, p. 11, pl. 47 [as "The Church of Notre-Dame at Moret after Rain," 1894].

Eitner, L. An Outline of 19th Century European Painting from David Through Cézanne. New York, 1987, 2 vols., vol. 1, pp. 396-397, vol. 2, p. 213, (fig. 371). [Revised edition, 2002].

Alfred Sisley. Exh. cat., Royal Academy, Musée d'Orsay, Walters Art Gallery. London, Paris, Baltimore, 1992/1993, p. 244, cat. 71E, (repr.).

Gale, I. "Sisley The Legacy," R. A. Magazine (Summer 1992): pp. 35-36, (repr.).

Gale, I. Sisley. London, Studio Editions, 1992, pp. 37-38, 132, (repr.).

Thomson, R. "London, Royal Academy Sisley" (review), Burlington Magazine, vol. [?] , (September 1992): pp. 614-616, esp. pp. 614-615.

Shone, R. Sisley. London/New York, 1992, pp. 162, 164-165, 167, pl. 131 (det.).

Keyes, G. S. "Late Nineteenth-Century French Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 77, no. 1-2, p. 7, (repr.) (det.).

Turner e gli impressionisti: La grande storia del paesaggio moderno in Europa. Exh. cat., Museo di Santa Giulia. Brescia, 2006-2007, pp. 31, 334, cat. 155, (repr.).

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