| Villeneuve-la-Garenne | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Alfred Sisley |
| Year | 1872 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 59 cm× 80.5 cm(23 in× 31.7 in) [1] |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg |
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. [1]
Sisley visited Villeneuve-la-Garenne, producing at least five paintings there. [2] [3] Its composition recalls that of The Seine at Bennecourt (1868; Art Institute of Chicago) by Sisley's friend Claude Monet. [2] Just out of frame to the left is the town's bridge, the subject of Sisley's The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Metropolitan Museum of Art [4] ).
Sisley sold it to Paul Durand-Ruel on 24 August 1872. [2] It was acquired in 1898 by Pyotr Shchukin of Moscow, [2] then by Sergei Shchukin in 1912. [2] After the October Revolution of 1918 it entered the Museum of Western Modern Art, before moving to its present home in 1948.
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