Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Every picture shows a spot with which
  the artist has fallen in love."  -- Alfred Sisley


The Valley of the Seine at Saint Cloud by Alfred Sisley, 1875. Musee des Beaux-Arts Rennes, France

Alfred Sisley, was a British citizen born in Paris in 1839. He is one of my favorite Impressionist painters. Look at that light! Although his career was overshadowed by his friends, Monet and Renoir who he met while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, they often painted together outdoors. Sisley remained committed to landscape painting en plein air throughout his career, and created over 900 paintings, 100 pastels and many drawings.

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