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LisiŠre de forˆt signed and dated 'Sisley.95' (lower right) oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (59.7 x 81.1 cm.) Painted in 1895 PROVENANCE Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris. Jules Strauss, Paris (acquired from the above, 25 February 1900). Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 25 March 1901). Robert Sulzer, Winterthur (acquired from the above, 11 December 1919). Mme. Robert Sulzer, Winterthur (by decent from the above). The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd.), London. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968. LITERATURE F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, catalogue raisonn‚ de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 843 (illustrated). EXHIBITION Paris, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition des tableaux de Sisley, February-March 1902, no. 29. Paris, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, June 1910, no. 82. Paris, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Sisley, April-May 1914, no. 34. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Der Winterthurer Privatbesitz I, September-October 1942, no. 247. NOTES In 1889, Sisley settled in Moret-sur-Loing, a small village about twenty-five miles southeast of Paris where he painted thoughout the 1880s. The town and surrounding countryside so enchanted him that on 31 August 1881 he wrote to his friend Monet: Moret is just two hours journey from Paris, and has plenty of places to let at six hundred to a thousand francs. There is a market once a week, a pretty church, and beautiful scenery round about. If you were thinking of moving, why not come and see? (Quoted in M. Stevens, Alfred Sisley, London, 1992, p. 184) The present work is one at least four paintings which Sisley made in 1895 depicting the wooded fields around Moret. In this version, he has included for anecdotal effect a figure on a path. The bright palette and dappled brushwork of the painting are characteristic of Sisley's late work; here, they are used to create the convincing impression of a hazy late summer day.