Louveciennes

The pictures Sisley painted are Impressionism of an outstanding order, yet from the connoisseurs’ point of view he was never more than a member of the movement who painted like Monet. The fact is that Sisley conveys no sense of an artistic personality. His range of subjects is not great: he painted landscapes only, with an occasional figure. His art in total lacks subjects, techniques or qualities peculiarly his. Yet Sisley’s paintings are things of beauty and light, done with ease, the expression of a positive spirit. His unspectacular landscape work alternates between distant and closer views, like the intimate landscapes of the Barbizon school.