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Follow the broad curve of the sandy foreground around the pool, then compare the small buildings with the much larger cloud-filled sky.
Sisley moved to Marly-le-Roi in 1875 and lived on a street beside this watering place. The pool was a surviving part of Louis XIV’s water gardens. In Sisley’s picture, that royal remnant belongs to an ordinary village landscape, surrounded by houses, open ground, and changing clouds.
Oil on canvas · 39.5 × 56.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Watering Place at Marly
- Artist
- Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 80.7 × 9.6 cm (25 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells
- 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.