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Haystacks at Moret - Morning light
(Les Meules de paille à Moret - effet du matin)
1891
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
Sisley executed two paintings of haystacks in the summer of 1891, a few months after 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. Eschewing Monet’s abstraction of the landscape context and his transformation of the fleeting moment into a universal statement, Sisley’s depiction remains a record of a particular location on a chilly afternoon in February, when the winter sun illuminated the dormant landscape with a crisp, clean light.
Artwork Details
Felton Bequest, 1913
© Public Domain
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