LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

78.5 x 63.1

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Sisley'

Exhibited:

New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Sisley, October-December 1966, no. 3 (illustrated). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, March-October 2008, p. 104, no. 70 (illustrated in color; titled Rural Guardsman in the Fontainbleau Forest).

Literature:

F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Milan, 1974, p. 18, no. 1 (illustrated in color).S. Brame and F. Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne, 2021, pp. 47 and 409, no. 19 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

M. Reynaud, Paris. Mme Reynaud, Paris (by descent from the above).Pierre Reulos, Chambry.Franois Daulte, Lausanne.Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1966).Mrs. M. Chapman; Estate sale, Christie's, London, 2 April 1974, lot 22.Rosenblatt collection (acquired at the above sale).Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 6 June 1978, lot 53.Akram Ojjeh, Paris (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 1999, lot 226. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.