Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud

Painting by Alfred Sisley

Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud

Artist	Alfred Sisley
Year	1865
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	129 cm × 208 cm (51 in × 82 in)
Location	Petit Palais, Paris

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. It was refused by the Paris Salon of 1867 and bought by Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1877. It was acquired in 1919 by Joseph Duveen, who in 1921 gave it to the Petit Palais, where it still hangs.

References

"Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau". Paris Musées.
Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette, Origins of Impressionism, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 461-462

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Paintings	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)
Series	Marly series (1873–1876) Moret Church (1893–1894)
Depictions	Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866) A Couple (Les Fiancés) (c. 1868 painting) Interior, after Dinner (1868-1869) Under the Lamp (1887)
Related	Pays des Impressionnistes

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