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Notice that Sisley sits facing the back of the chair. Follow its curved top toward the hand supporting his head.
Renoir portrays his fellow painter in an unusually informal pose. Monet later recalled that the sitting took place at his house in Argenteuil, with Sisley astride his chair. Exhibited in 1877, the portrait offers a glimpse of the personal connections behind the Impressionists’ public group exhibitions.
Oil on canvas · 66.2 × 54.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Alfred Sisley
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1876
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 66.2 × 54.8 cm (26 × 21 9/16 in.); Framed: 90.2 × 79.4 × 10.8 cm (35 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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.