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Bridge at Sèvres
Purchased 1927
adults
architecture
bank
Billancourt
boat, rowing
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cloud
countries and continents
figure
France
hill
landscape
leisure and pastimes
people
places
river
rowing
society
sport
sunshine
Sèvres
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
weather
wooded
<p>Sisley lived in Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, between 1877 and 1880. While there, he painted ten pictures from the bridge, all from slightly different viewpoints. Most date from 1877. This one is painted looking south, with the first houses of Billancourt on the left and Sèvres on the right.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 1993</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
1 November 2000 – 8 September 2001
2001-09-08
1 November 2000 – 28 January 2001
2001-01-28
2000-11-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2 March 2001 – 20 May 2001
2001-05-20
2001-03-02
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
16 June 2001 – 8 September 2001
2001-09-08
2001-06-16
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, USA)
http://www.clarkart.edu/
2000-11-01
Impression: Painting Quickly in France
Loan-out
19 July 2008 – 1 February 2009
2009-02-01
19 July 2008 – 12 October 2008
2008-10-12
2008-07-19
Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org
2008-07-19
Impressionism and Scotland
Loan-out
11 September 2011 – 29 January 2012
2012-01-29
11 September 2011 – 29 January 2012
2012-01-29
2011-09-11
Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
2011-09-11
Alfred Sisley
Loan-out
27 April 2013 – 29 September 2013
2013-09-29
27 April 2013 – 29 September 2013
2013-09-29
2013-04-27
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Rouen, France)
2013-04-27
Normandie Impressionniste
Loan-out
31 October 2022
4 October 2021
2021-10-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 8
Collection based display
The Bridge at Sèvres
support: 381 × 460 mm
frame: 644 × 722 × 101 mm
Purchased 1927
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<p>The British painter Alfred Sisley was part of the French impressionist group. He painted ten works from the local bridge in Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, where he lived. Each work in the series was painted from slightly different viewpoints and in different weather conditions. Most date from 1877. This one is painted looking south, with the first houses of Billancourt on the left and Sèvres on the right.</p>
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<p><b>Alfred Sisley</b> 1839-1899</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sisley-the-bridge-at-sevres-n04249" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04249</span></a> <b>Le Pont de Sévres</b> (The Bridge at Sévres) 1877</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Sisley' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 15 x 18 1/8 (38 x 46) 
<br/>Purchased at the Murray sale (Clarke Fund) 1927 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Adolphe Tavernier, Paris; Tavernier sale, Petit, Paris, 6 March 1900, lot 79; bt. Durand-Ruel on behalf of P. Van de Velde, Le Havre, 4,700 frs.; Sir James Murray, London and Aberdeen; Murray sale, Christie's, London, 29 April 1927, lot 92 repr. 
<br/><i>Exh: Masterpieces of French Art of the 19th Century</i>, Agnew, London, July 1923 (36), lent by Sir James Murray; Agnew, Manchester, October 1923 (36); <i>Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery</i>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1926 (works not numbered) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: François Daulte, <i>Alfred Sisley</i> (Paris 1959), No.320, p.148, repr. p.149 (dated 1879) 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: John Rothenstein, Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (London 1947), pl.48</p>
<p>While Sisley was living at Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, from the autumn of 1877 to 1880, he painted ten pictures of the bridge, all from different viewpoints (Daulte Nos.259-64, 270, 309-10 and 320). Five are signed and dated 1877, No.310, which is rather different, is dated 1879, and the others are undated. Daulte dates the present work 1879, without giving any reasons, but it seems much more likely to have been painted in 1877 at the same time as Nos.259-64 and 270, which it closely resembles in style.</p>
<p>It is painted looking south, with the first houses of Billancourt on the left and Sèvres on the right.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.690, reproduced p.690</p>

Catalogue entry
2003-07-16T00:00:00
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adults architecture bank Billancourt boat, rowing bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cloud countries and continents figure France hill landscape leisure and pastimes people places river rowing Sèvres society sport sunshine townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland weather wooded