The Forge at Marly-le-Roi
The Forge at Marly-le-Roi | |
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Artist | Alfred Sisley |
Year | 1875 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 55 cm × 73 cm (22 in × 29 in)[1] |
Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
The Forge at Marly-le-Roi is an oil on canvas painting by British-born French artist Alfred Sisley, created in 1875. It was part of the François Depeaux collection until its sale in 1906 by the Galerie Georges Petit to Étienne Moreau-Nélaton. Moreau-Nélaton left it to the French state later in 1906 and it has been displayed at the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris, since 1986.[1]
Description
The painting was painted at the bottom of the Grande Rue de Marly-le-Roi, adjoining the Hôtel de Toulouse, at number 48, where there was a forge, nowadays transformed into a garage.
Sisley was mainly a landscape painter, like fellow Impressionist Claude Monet, so an intimate canvas by him dedicated to on human activities is rare.[2] Among his around of 800 listed canvases, French Art historian Sylvie Patin counts only three interior views, The Lesson (1871), The Interior of a Farm in Moret (1880), and this one, which testifies the interest of the artist for simple people while living in Marly-le-Roi.[3]
The lighting of the scene comes from the window, some panes of which are closed, and from the glowing forge. For the art historian Jean-Jacques Lévêque, "the treatment of chiaroscuro is exceptional in the work of an artist so lost in light, and so adept at capturing it".[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "La Forge à Marly-le-Roi- Alfred Sisley | Musée d'Orsay". www.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ Anthony Lacoudre, Ici est né l'impressionnisme: guide de randonnées en Yvelines, Éd. du Valhermeil, 2003, pp. 119-120 (French)
- ^ a b Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les années impressionnistes: 1870-1889, 1990, p. 277 (French)
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- List of paintings
- Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud (1865)
- View of Montmartre from Cité des Fleurs to Les Batignolles (1869)
- View of the Canal Saint-Martin (1870)
- Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)
- Drying Nets (1872)
- Rue de la Chaussée in Argenteuil (1872)
- The Seine at Argenteuil (1872)
- The Grand-Rue in Argenteuil (1872)
- Ferry to the Ile-de-la-Loge – Flood (1872)
- The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)
- The Canal Saint-Martin (1872)
- Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes (1873)
- Frost in Louveciennes (1873)
- The Aqueduct at Marly (1874)
- Under Hampton Court Bridge (1874)
- The Church at Noisy-le-Roi, Autumn Effect (1874)
- Regatta at Molesey near Hampton Court (1874)
- The Village of Voisins (1874)
- The Meadow (1875)
- The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand (1875)
- The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring (1875)
- The Forge at Marly-le-Roi (1875)
- A Street in Marly (1876)
- Place du Chenil in Marly, Snow Effect (1876)
- The Watering Trough at Marly with Hoarfrost (1876)
- Flooding at Port-Marly (1876)
- The Seine at Bougival (1876)
- The Banks of the Oise (1877–78)
- Resting by a Stream at the Edge of the Wood (1878)
- The Small Meadows in Spring, By (1881)
- The Edge of Fontainebleau Forest (1885)
- The Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather
- Avenue of Poplars near Moret-sur-Loing (1890)
- The Canal du Loing in Winter (1891)
- The Canal du Loing (1892)
- Marly series (1873–1876)
- Moret Church (1893–1894)
- Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866)
- A Couple (Les Fiancés) (c. 1868 painting)
- Interior, after Dinner (1868-1869)
- Under the Lamp (1887)
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