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The Loing and the slopes of Saint-Nicaise - February afternoon
(Le Loing et le coteau de Saint-Nicaise - après-midi de février)
1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
60.0 × 73.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1938
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
‘Every picture’, wrote Alfred Sisley in 1893, ‘shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love’. The subject of this painting is a calm stretch of the Loing River outside the historic township of Moret-sur- Loing, where Sisley spent the last decade of his life. This particular area, with its gently sloping hills, limestone embankment and simple buildings, was painted by the artist four times in 1890. Concerned to catch the specific effects of a moment, Sisley has tinged the shadows green and interspersed the high-keyed blues of sky and water with grey and white, intensifying a sense of February chill.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.l.: Sisley. 90.
Accession Number
453-4
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)
Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
afternoon France (nation) Loing (river) Mesnil-Saint-Nicaise (inhabited place) reflections (perceived properties) rivers sky winter
Movements
Impressionism
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Charles Ephrussi (1849–1905) collection of Theodore Reinach (1860–1928), Savoie region and Villa Kerylos, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, before 1928 by descent to Gabrielle Reinach  (1889–1970, 2nd daughter of first marriage), from 1928 with Wildenstein & Co., (dealer), London, by 1937 purchased from Wildenstein & Co. for the Felton Bequest on the advice of Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1937.