On the Banks of the Loing: The Cart
1890
Medium
etching with bitten tone and burnishing on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.7 × 22.5 cm (5 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 22.1 × 30.8 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2022.25.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alfred Sisley · 1839–1899
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a British-born French Impressionist landscape painter who remained the most consistently devoted to pure Impressionist principles throughout his career. Born in Paris to prosperous English parents, he studied at the atelier of Charles Gleyre alongside Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Frédéric Bazille, forming friendships that placed him at the heart of the eme...