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Alfred Sisley
Canal
at St-Mammès
Oil
on canvas, 32 x 41 cm.
The
Canal at Saint-Mammès was a recent construction, built adjacent to the point at
which the Seine is joined by the Loing thereby forming a larger river which
flows along the eastern edge of the forest of Fontainebleau north towards Paris.
The area had been popular for decades, as its yet unspoiled woodlands were
convenient for artists who journeyed there by train from the capital. From the
early 1880s Sisley began to record the changes in the area wrought by the
construction of the canal with trees cut down, banks straightened and a
transformation of this side of the town of Moret. Despite the flat landscape
that was revealed when cleared of ancient forest, Sisley returned again and
again to this region throughout the decade.
The artist is evidently seated in one of the boats that he loved to paint on the canal, and shows a dramatically foreshortened view of the bows of two barges on the left, while on the right two larger boats are laid up ashore on the bank of the river. Although we see white clouds scudding across a sky that fills two thirds of the picture, the brilliant blue of the water and the bright green trees would suggest a sunny Spring day.