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アルフレッド・シスレー (1839-1899)

 
<div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div> <div>Alfred Sisley’s <em>Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em> (1879) is a superb example of the artist’s lifelong devotion to painting directly before nature, and to the quiet drama of landscape in flux. Often described as the “purest” plein air painter of the Impressionist circle, Sisley maintained an almost exclusive relationship with landscape, attending to the subtlest changes of season, weather, and time of day. His river scenes in particular have long been compared to Monet’s for their sensitivity to water—its shifting reflections, softened edges, and the way light dissolves form into atmosphere. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Painted along the Seine at Billancourt—an industrial town west of Paris—this work belongs to the sequence of views Sisley produced after the upheavals of 1871, when he moved his family first to Louveciennes and later to nearby Marly-le-Roi. The Seine valley offered him an ever-renewing motif: looping river bends, villages threaded along the banks, and a landscape marked by both history and modern life. Here, the floating washing house (a lavoir) sits low on the water, a practical structure where locals could wash clothes directly in the river for a small fee. Sisley transforms this everyday subject into an evocation of lived place, where human activity is integrated seamlessly into the broader rhythms of sky and current. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The 1870s are widely recognized as Sisley’s “golden period”—when his work speaks in a distinctly personal voice rather than under the overt influence of Corot, Courbet, or even early Monet. After ceasing to exhibit at the Salon after 1877, his compositions grew more complex and less dependent on traditional recession and linear perspective, shifting instead toward interlocking patterns and the expressive energy of his brushwork. In<em> Le Lavoir de Billancourt</em>, layers of pigment are built up in quick, multidirectional strokes, creating a richly textured surface saturated with color and air. This heightened spontaneity aligns with contemporary praise for Sisley’s ability to seize passing moments—clouds, breeze, and trembling foliage—so that space and light feel inseparable, and the scene remains vibrantly in motion. The painting is recorded in the François Dault<em> Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint</em> (1959) as no. 315. </div>
ビランクールの洗濯場1879年20 x 25 5/8 インチ(50.8 x 65.09 cm) 油彩・キャンバス
出所
アンリ・ポワダッツ、パリ
ジョルジュ・プティ画廊、パリ、1900年4月27日、ロット79
ジョルジュ・プティ、上記オークションにて取得
オークション:ジョルジュ・プティ画廊、パリ、1921年3月4-5日、ロット113
ランスカイ伯爵、パリ
オテル・ドルーオ、パリ、1922年4月6日、ロット16
ウジェーヌ・ブロ、パリ、上記オークションにて取得
アーサー・シャルパンティエ博士、パリ
個人コレクション、スイス、1950年頃取得
個人コレクション、上記より継承
個人コレクション、ヨーロッパ
サザビーズ・ニューヨーク、2015年5月6日、ロット番号
...もっとその。。。250
ロンドン、個人コレクション、上記オークションにて取得
展示会
パリ、ジョルジュ・プティ画廊、アルフレッド・シスレー、1917年、番号83
パリ、デュラン=リュエル、シスレーの絵画、1930年、番号23
パリ、ブラウン画廊、シスレー、1933年、番号13
ベルン、美術館、アルフレッド・シスレー、1958年、番号38
パリ、プチ・パレ美術館、ジェリコーからマティスまで、スイス所蔵の傑作、1959年、作品番号126
シャフハウゼン、オールハイリゲン美術館、『印象派の世界』、1963年、作品番号125
ミネアポリス、ミネアポリス美術館、『再発見された過去:フランス絵画1800-1900』、1969年
 
文学
マクシミリアン・ゴーティエ「シスレーへのオマージュ」、『ラール・ヴァンヴィーヌ』1933年、第170号、116頁(図版付)
フランソワ・ドーテ、アルフレッド・シスレー、『絵画作品総目録』、パリ、1959年、作品番号315(図版付き)
ジャック・ラセーン&スリーヴィ・ガシュ=パタン著『シスレー』パリ、1982年、31ページ(図版付き)
メアリー・アン・スティーブンス編『アルフレッド・シスレー』ロンドン、1992年、154頁
シルヴィ・ブラム&フランソワ・ロランスー『アルフレッド・シスレー:絵画とパステルの批評的目録』パリ、2021年、155頁、488頁(図版掲載)
...少ない。。。
アルフレッド・シスレーの『ビランクールの洗濯場』(1879年)は、自然を前にして直接描くこと、そして移ろいゆく風景の静かなドラマへの、画家の生涯にわたる献身の優れた例である。 印象派の仲間の中で「最も純粋な」野外画家と評されるシスレーは、風景とのほぼ排他的な関係を保ち、季節や天候、時間帯の微妙な変化に注意を払った。特に彼の川辺の情景は、水の移ろいゆく反射、柔らかな輪郭、光が形を大気に溶け込ませる様への感性において、モネの作品と長年比較されてきた。


 


パリ西部の工業都市ビランクールにあるセーヌ川沿いで描かれた本作は、1871年の動乱後にシスレーが制作した一連の風景画に属する。彼はこの年、家族を連れてまずルーヴシエンヌへ、その後近くのマリー=ル=ロワへ移住した。 セーヌ川流域は、彼に絶え間なく新たなモチーフを提供した。蛇行する川曲り、岸辺に連なる村々、そして歴史と現代生活の両方に刻まれた風景である。ここでは、浮遊する洗濯場(ラヴォワール)が水面に低く浮かんでいる。地元住民が少額の料金で川で直接洗濯できる実用的な構造物だ。 シスレーはこの日常的な主題を、生活の場を喚起する作品へと昇華させる。そこでは人間の営みが、空と流れの広大なリズムにシームレスに溶け込んでいる。





1870年代はシスレーの「黄金期」と広く認識されている。この時期の作品は、コローやクールベ、初期モネの顕著な影響下にあるのではなく、明確に独自の表現を確立している。 1877年以降のサロン展出品を断った後、彼の構図はより複雑化し、伝統的な遠近法や線遠近法への依存を減らした。代わりに、絡み合うパターンと筆致の表現力豊かなエネルギーへと移行した。『ビランクールの洗濯場』では、素早く多方向への筆致で絵具の層が積み上げられ、色彩と空気感に満ちた豊かな質感の表面が生み出されている。 この高まった即興性は、雲やそよ風、揺れる葉といった儚い瞬間を捉えるシスレーの技量に対する当時の称賛と符合する。空間と光が不可分となり、情景が躍動感に満ちた動きを保つのだ。本作はフランソワ・ドーによる『アルフレッド・シスレー:絵画作品総覧』(1959年)において作品番号315として記録されている。
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