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Follow the street toward the distant gateway, then compare the blue roof and shadows with the warm road and brickwork.
This view of Moret gives a street corner a prominent place beneath a broad sky. The roadway narrows into the distance while small pedestrians establish the buildings’ scale. Sisley links the blue roof, pale walls, and moving clouds through repeated touches of color, keeping architecture within the landscape’s changing light.
Oil on canvas · 60 × 73.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Street in Moret
- Artist
- Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 73.2 cm (23 7/8 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 86.1 × 100.1 × 10.5 cm (33 7/8 × 39 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- 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.