Allée of Chestnut Trees

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Allée of Chestnut Trees, 1878. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 19 3/4 in. × 24 in. (50.2 × 61 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: Allée of Chestnut Trees
Artist: Alfred Sisley (British, Paris 1839–1899 Moret-sur-Loing)
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 3/4 in. × 24 in. (50.2 × 61 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 31 3/8 in. (69.5 × 79.7 cm)
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1839–1899

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.