Research Catalog

Title

Sisley in England and Wales / Christopher Riopelle, Ann Sumner.

Author

Riopelle, Christopher

Publication

London : National Gallery Co. ; [New Haven, CT] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sumner, Ann
• National Gallery (Great Britain)
• National Museum Wales.

Description

56 p. : col. ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), although born and raised in France, was from a wealthy English family and maintained links with his ancestral homeland all his life. In 1874, after his participation in the now-infamous first Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, he stayed in London, where he painted classically Impressionistic studies of summer life along the River Thames." "When Sisley returned to Britain in 1897, he made a short visit to South Wales. He was entralled by the dramatic shoreline, and the paintings resulting from this trip were among the most audacious and vivid he had ever produced." "Alfred Sisley was best known for his distinctive Impressionist treatment of landscape and this book brings together a rarely seen collection of fresh and appealing studies of the banks of the River Thames, Hampton Court and South Wales."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sisley, Alfred, 1839-1899 > Exhibitions
• England > In art > Exhibitions
• Wales > In art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This book published to accompany an exhibition held on at the National Gallery, London, from 12 Nov. 2008 to 15 Feb. 2009 and at Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales, Cardiff, from 7 March to 14 June 2009"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 53).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sisley and England 'entente cordiale' / Christopher Riopelle -- Sisley's views of Wales lost and found / Ann Sumner.

ISBN

• 9781857094138 (pbk.)
• 1857094131 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007935092

OCLC

• 223871891
• SCSB-10028998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library