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Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud (French: Allée de châtaigniers à La Celle-Saint-Cloud) or Edge of the Fontainebleau Forest (French: Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau) is an 1865 pre-Impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in the woods at La Celle-Saint-Cloud.
Until 1880, Sisley lived and worked in the country west of Paris; then he and his family moved to a small village near Moret-sur-Loing, close to the forest of Fontainebleau, where the painters of the Barbizon school had worked earlier in the century. Here, as art historian Anne Poulet has said, "the gentle landscapes with their constantly ...
It depicts the Forest of Fontainebleau near Fontainebleau. [1] Corot exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1834 at the Louvre in Paris. It is sometimes confused with another view of Fontainebleau which was exhibited at the Salon of 1831. [2] Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. [3]
19th-century paintings in Denmark (26 P) 0–9. 19th-century portraits (11 C, 204 P) B. Paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage (5 P) Paintings by Anna Bilińska (2 P)
Avenue of Poplars near Moret-sur-Loing is an 1890 painting by Alfred Sisley. It is held by the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.
The Edge of Fontainebleau Forest (French - La lisière de la Foret de Fontainebleau or Lisière de la foret de Fontainebleau mass) is an oil on canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, from 1885, now in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. On the reverse are the two French titles and labels from Paul Durand-Ruel's Paris and New York. [2]
Rather than painting landscapes from afar like traditional painters, 19th-century rural painters climbed or walked into forested areas for a close view of wooded scenes. Paintings of the sous-bois, evoking the trees and grassy undergrowth, were often made vertically on canvas, as opposed to horizontal views of sweeping landscapes.
The Avenue at Middelharnis by Meindert Hobbema, 1689, 103.5 × 141 cm. National Gallery, London A more typical Hobbema, Forest landscape with a merry company in a cart, Rijksmuseum, c. 1665. The Avenue at Middelharnis is a Dutch Golden Age painting of 1689 by Meindert Hobbema, now in the National Gallery, London.