Alfred SISLEY
English 1839-1899
Haystacks at Moret – morning light
1891
oil on canvas
73.8 x 93.1 cm
Felton Bequest 1913
583-2

The impressionist preoccupation with capturing the moment and the changing effects of light and weather conditions, is particularly apparent in the paintings of Sisley.
Haystacks is painted, as the title indicates, in morning light. From the clouds and dishevelled straw we know that a breeze is blowing. In the right foreground the loose straw is painted in a whorl of mixed colours - crimson, green and orange. Sisley, like most of the impressionists, painted domestic landscapes close to habitation.