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Haystacks at Moret - Morning light
(Les Meules de paille à Moret - effet du matin)
1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 73.8 × 93.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in red paint l.l.: Sisley ·91
- Accession Number
- 583-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1913
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- Not on display
- About this work
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Sisley executed two paintings of haystacks in the summer of 1891, a few months after Monet’s famous series had been exhibited to critical acclaim in Paris. Notwithstanding his adoption of Monet’s subject, Sisley’s treatment of the haystacks is very much his own. Eschewing Monet’s abstraction of the landscape context and his transformation of the fleeting moment into a universal statement, Sisley’s depiction remains a record of a particular location on a chilly afternoon in February, when the winter sun illuminated the dormant landscape with a crisp, clean light.
- Subjects (general)
- Agriculture Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- farmland France (nation) haystacks Moret-sur-Loing (inhabited place) morning rural areas sky sunlight
- Movements
- Impressionism
