The Watering Trough at Marly with Hoarfrost
1876 painting by Alfred Sisley / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Watering Trough at Marly with Hoarfrost is an 1876 painting by Alfred Sisley. It was owned by François Depeaux, a Sisley collector, and passed through other collections before ending up in that of Paul Mellon. It is now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, United States.[2] It was painted at Marly-le-Roi and is part of his Marly series. Sisley's works showing the watering trough and The Flood at Port-Marly are two series of Impressionist masterworks comparable to Claude Monet's Gare Lazare series, Renoir's The Swing and Bal du moulin de la Galette series, Berthe Morisot's Champs de blé series and Camille Pissarro's Vues de Pontoise and Toits rouges series.[3] Sisley did not much change his point of view between each painting, but he dramatically changed the background, proving his ability to vary views of a limited section of countryside.[4]
The Watering Pond at Marly with Hoarfrost | |
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Artist | Alfred Sisley |
Year | 1876 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 37.78 cm × 54.93 cm (14.87 in × 21.63 in)[1] |
Location | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia |
The watering trough became a favourite subject of Sisley's during his time at Marly, breaking with subjects of the 18th- and early-19th-century Paris Salons. Like Pissarro, Monet and Renoir, he showed more interest in its current domestic and utilitarian use than in its status as a remnant of the Ancien Régime or its past life as an ornamental lake.[4][5]