Property from an Important International Collection
Alfred Sisley
1839 – 1899
Chemin à l'entrée d'un bois
signed Sisley (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ¾ by 29 in.
60.4 by 73.7 cm.
Executed circa 1891.
Condition Report
Provenance
Paul Aubry, Paris
Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 10 May 1897, lot 30 (consigned by the above)
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above)
Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above)
Galerie Georg Caspari, Munich (acquired from the above in 1917)
E. K. Königs, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1932)
Estate of the above
Galerie Heuser, Hamburg
Kunstsalon Abels, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1952)
Dr. Curtius, Krefeld (acquired from the above in 1952)
Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Cologne
Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2015, lot 43 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1959, no. 755, illustrated
Sylvie Brame and François Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels, Lausanne, 2021, no. 881, pp. 327 and 496, illustrated in color
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts; Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Alfred Sisley, 1991, no. 43, illustrated
Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Alfred Sisley: der wahre Impressionist, 2011 - 2012, p. 199, illustrated