Lot 178: ALFRED SISLEY

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
1839 - 1899
LE LAVOIR DE BILLANCOURT
Signed Sisley. (lower left)
Oil on canvas
19 7/8 by 25 7/8 in.
50.3 by 65.6 cm
Painted in 1879.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Alfred Sisley, 1917, no. 83
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Tableaux de Sisley, 1930, no. 23
Paris, Galerie d'Art Braun, Sisley, 1933, no. 13
Berne, Kunstmuseum, Alfred Sisley, 1958, no. 38
Paris, Musée du Petit-Palais, De Gericault à Matisse, Chefs-d'Oeuvre des Collections Suisse, 1959, no. 126
Schaffhausen, Museum Zu Allerheiligen, Die Welt des Impressionnismus, 1963, no. 125
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900, 1969

Maximilien Gauthier, "Hommage à Sisley", in L'Art vivant, 1933, no. 170, illustrated p. 116
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1959, no. 315, illustrated
Mary Anne Stevens, ed., Alfred Sisley, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, p. 154

Henri Poidatz, Paris (and sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 27, 1900, lot 79)
Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 4-5, 1921, lot 113
Comte de Lanscay, Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 6, 1922, lot 16)
Dr. Arthur Charpentier, Paris
Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1950
Thence by descent