The Loire

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1896

Alfred Sisley (French, 1839–1899)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Alfred Sisley
Title: The Loire
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Sisley.
Dimensions: 46.3 × 55.3 cm (18 3/16 × 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lucille E. and Joseph L. Block
Reference Number: 1988.504
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François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue Raisonné de L’Oeuvre Peint (Lausanne, 1959), no. 850, as Bords Du Long.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collectors, Sep.-Oct. 1963, as Landscape.

Thannhauser Gallery, Berlin and Munich [based on sticker on reverse; see also Daulte 1959]; Mrs. Kate Jarrett, Forest Hills, New York, consignor of painting at the Justin K Thannhauser Gallery, New York, sometime between September 1941 and 1952 [according to stock files attached to letter from Janet Briner, Thannhauser archives]; painting sold but unknown to whom. Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Block, by January 1952 [according to handwritten note on stretcher]; Mrs. Leopold Block (died 1973), Chicago, by at least 1963 [lent to Chicago 1963; see receipt 18943, 10 Sept. 1963, for Chicago 1963 exh.]; by descent to her son and his wife, Joseph L. Block and Lucille Block, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1988.

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