Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air. He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
Louveciennes is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi.
The Stormy Sea in Étretat is an oil on canvas painting by French Impressionism painter Claude Monet, from 1883. It is held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Albert Lebourg, birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School. Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by : Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.
The Pays des Impressionnistes is a certification mark created by the Syndicat intercommunal à vocations multiples des Coteaux de Seine in 2001 to promote the cultural heritage of this touristic area. Nine municipalities in the Yvelines department of France bordering the loop of the Seine River, where, during the nineteenth century, impressionist painters exercised their art, are associated with this creation: Bougival, Carrières-sur-Seine, Chatou, Croissy-sur-Seine, Le Pecq, Le Port-Marly, Louveciennes, Marly-le-Roi and Noisy-le-Roi. There is the Path of the Impressionists, four hiking trails dotted with reproductions of paintings, reflecting the still remarkable character of this landscape of Impressionist sites which has been proposed for inclusion in the World Heritage Site since 2009. Rueil-Malmaison, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, joined them in 2010, when eight of these municipalities have entrusted development task of the Pays des Impressionnistes to the visitor center of Marly-le-Roi, which organises Impressionist cruises along the banks of the Seine, as well as visits of ateliers of contemporary painters.
Dance at Bougival is an 1883 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Described as "one of the museum's most beloved works", it is one of three in a collection commissioned by Paul Durand-Ruel. It depicts a scene in the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris, a site utilized by many Impressionists besides Renoir including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot.
Bazille's Studio is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1870 by the French Impressionist Frédéric Bazille. The painting is also known as L'Atelier de la rue Condamine, The Studio, and The Studio on the Rue La Condamine. It has been in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1986. It shows the artist himself surrounded by his friends and paintings in his studio, capturing the artistic and social conditions of Paris in 1870.
Drying Nets or Fishermen Spreading Their Nets is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Kimbell Art Museum. The painting shows a scene near the village of Villeneuve-la-Garenne.
The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand is an 1875 painting by Alfred Sisley. It was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 whilst in the collection of Dr. Georges Viau, a Paris dentist and art collector. By 4 March 1907 it was owned by Durand-Ruel, who tried and failed to auction it on 4 March that year. It was bought by the galerie Bernheim-Jeune in April 1920 and later by Martin A. Ryerson. In 1933 Ryerson left it to its present owner, the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is now in section 201 (Impressionists) on the 1st floor of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ferry to the Ile-de-la-Loge – Flood is a painting by Alfred Sisley. He produced it during a flood on the Seine, which had begun in late October and reached its peak on 17 December. The painting was finished in December 1872. It was bought for 200 francs by Durand-Ruel on 21 January 1873 and exhibited at the First Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874 as number 162 It was later owned by François Depeaux before forming part of the Depeaux sale at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris on 31 May 1906. It was acquired by the Carlsberg Foundation in 1914 and later that year it was exhibited at the Statens Museum for Kunst before being acquired later the same year by its present owner, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
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. 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. 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.
The Grand-Rue in Argenteuil is an 1872 painting by Alfred Sisley, previously entitled A Street in Sèvres. It is now in Norwich Castle.
The Church at Noisy-le-Roi, Autumn Effect or The Bell-Tower at Noisy-le-Roi, Autumn Effect is an Impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley.
Place du Chenil in Marly, Snow Effect is an 1876 oil on canvas painting by Alfred Sisley. It is now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, to which it was given by François Depeaux in 1909 It was painted at Marly-le-Roi and a lifesize reproduction of it is on display near the site of its creation as part of the Pays des Impressionnistes trail.
The Meadow is an 1875 painting by Alfred Sisley, now in section 88 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. It shows a scene near Louveciennes - Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted the same view of Louveciennes that year as Path Through Tall Herbs.
Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Village Beside the Seine or Village on the Seine is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
View of Montmartre from Cité des Fleurs to Les Batignolles is an oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in spring 1869 and now in the Musée de Grenoble. It bears national museums reference France Inv. MG 1317. It was given to that museum in 1901 by the artist's friend and fellow painter Joseph-Auguste Rousselin, only two years after Sisley's death. It is one of the first Impressionist paintings to depict Montmartre, showing it as in very verdant surrounds.
Louis Latouche was a French painter, pigment dealer, framer and art dealer, notable as a defender of Impressionism. He was born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and died in hospital at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.
The Batignolles group was a group of young avant-garde painters from the end of the 19th century who gathered around Édouard Manet. The group bears its name in reference to the Batignolles district, where the artists used to meet between 1869 and 1875. Many of the artists in the group later became known for the Impressionism movement.
