About This Artwork
Alfred Sisley
French, 1839-1899
Watering Place at Marly1875
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
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
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.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 15 (ill.).
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.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 15, p. 52 (ill.).
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].

