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Closest to us in this print, on the left, a person dressed in a light-colored tunic stands on the grassy bank accompanied by a group of geese, some walking on land and some wading into the water. Behind them, the water of the river is a mix of blues and greens. Two individuals are rowing a small boat on the water. On the opposite side of the river are a cluster of red-roofed houses along the riverbank. Above the horizon, the sky occupies the top third of the composition, colored in soft blues and punctuated by greyish-pink clouds.
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Closest to us in this print, on the left, a person dressed in a light-colored tunic stands on the grassy bank accompanied by a group of geese, some walking on land and some wading into the water. Behind them, the water of the river is a mix of blues and greens. Two individuals are rowing a small boat on the water. On the opposite side of the river are a cluster of red-roofed houses along the riverbank. Above the horizon, the sky occupies the top third of the composition, colored in soft blues and punctuated by greyish-pink clouds.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Banks of the River (Les Bords de rivière)

Alfred Sisley

Date
1897
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 21.5 x 32.1 cm (8 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 43 x 56.7 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1950.16.234
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • figure
  • Landscape
  • bird
  • animal
  • Impressionist
  • Water
  • Nature
Inscription

recto: in stone, in image, at lower right: Sisley; in graphite, below image, at right: Sisley; in graphite, in bottom left corner: 11; verso: none

Marks

none

NGA object ID 39169. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.