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Haystacks at Moret - Morning light
(Les Meules de paille à Moret - effet du matin)
1891
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
73.8 × 93.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1913
© Public Domain
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Alfred Sisley executed two paintings of haystacks in the summer of 1891, a few months after Claude Monet’s famous series had been exhibited to critical acclaim in Paris. Notwithstanding his adoption of Monet’s subject, Sisley’s treatment of the haystacks is very much his own, offering a record of a particular location seen in the sparkling sunlight of a summer’s morning. ‘Every picture,’ Sisley wrote in 1893, ‘shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love.’
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.l.: Sisley ·91
Accession Number
583-2
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Agriculture Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
farmland France (nation) haystacks Moret-sur-Loing (inhabited place) morning rural areas sky sunlight
Movements
Impressionism