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Look through the overhanging leaves toward the dome, then compare the boats’ dark silhouettes with the broken reflections below them.
Sisley’s view of the Seine includes the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts, placing recognizable Parisian architecture beyond the water. Yet the river occupies much of the foreground, and foliage frames the sky. Buildings, boats, and reflections share the same loose, shifting brushwork.
Oil on canvas · 53.3 × 62.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Landscape along the Seine with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts
- Artist
- Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53.3 × 62.2 cm (21 × 24 1/2 in.); Framed: 66.9 × 75.6 × 5.8 cm (26 3/8 × 29 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Wood Prince
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.