Flood at Port-Marly by Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley's 1876 painting Flood at Port-Marly may have been included in the Impressionists third exhibition. The catalogue of the third exhibition lists the entry Inondations, and the critic Charles Bigot mentions two works depicting floods by Alfred Sisley, but neither have been identified.

Flood at Port-Marly by Alfred Sisley (oil on canvas, 23-5/8x31-7/8 inches) hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Flood at Port-Marly -- with its nuanced, blue-gray palette -- serves to illustrate Alfred Sisley's command of the heavy, moisture-laden atmosphere and the clear reflections on the high, trembling waters.

For more on Impressionist paintings, artists, and art history, see:

• Impressionism
• Vincent van Gogh
• Claude Monet

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Debra N. Mancoff, Ph.D., is an art historian and lecturer and the author of numerous books on nineteenth-century European and American paintings. She is a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library and an adjunct associate professor and adjunct lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.