About This Artwork

Alfred Sisley
French, 1839-1899

Watering Place at Marly, 1875

Oil on canvas
15 7/16 x 22 1/8 in. (39.5 x 56.2 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Sisley. 75
Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells, 1971.875

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago / Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28 - September 6, 1984 / October 23, 1984 - January 6, 1985 / February 8 - April 2, 1985, no. 21.

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18 - December 17, 1985 / January 5 - February 2, 1986 / March 4 - April 13, 1986, no. 23.

Publication History

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Lausanne, 1959), no. 169.

S. Gache-Patin, Sisley (Paris, 1983), pp. 82, 156, no. 113.

D. Bomford, et. al., Art in the Making: Impressionism (New Haven and London, 1991), pl. 131, p. 48.

Ownership History

Louis Flornoy, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 10, 1905, lot 40 for 5350 fr. to Camentron; M. L. Camentron, Paris. Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York [acc. to Daulte 1959]. M. Ziegler [according to Daulte 1959]. Possibly Wildenstein and Co., New York [Wildenstein valued the painting in 1971 and the Runnells purchased many paintings through them]; Mrs. Clive Runnells, Lake Forest, Illinois by 1971; given to the Art Institute, December 1971 [half-interest acquired by the AIC].