Rue de la Princesse, Evening

Original Language TitleRoute de la Princesse (le soir)

Former TitleRue de la Princesse, Winter

Original Language TitleRue de la princesse, l'hiver

Artist Alfred Sisley (English, born France, 1839 - 1899)

Date1875

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 24 x 19 5/8 inches (60.96 x 49.85 cm)
Framed: 35 x 30 1/2 x 4 inches (88.9 x 77.47 x 10.16 cm)

Credit LineGift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch

Object number2015.13.25

SignedSigned lower right: Sisley. 75

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

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DescriptionThis vertical landscape places the viewer on an unpaved road inhabited by a solitary female in the middle distance. In the left foreground, there is a pink-hued, two-story house with a balcony covered by a blue-green awning. To the right, a slatted fence and low stone or cement doorways lines the road; behind them are tall, bare trees and another two-story house. The road drops off in the middle ground, revealing a distant hill with the hint of a stone wall running parallel to the horizon line. The palette is a balance of muted pink-peach, beige, and blue-green tones. The brushstrokes are loose and sketchy, particularly in the trees and sky.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Exposition de tableaux de feu Sisley, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, January 3–February 8, 1908, as La Route de la Princesse.

Cent Ans de Peinture Française: Exposition au Profit du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, 18, Rue de la Ville-l’Évêque, Paris, March 15–April 20, 1922, no. 155, as La route de la Princesse en hiver.

Paysages par Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, January 14–31, 1933, no. 40.

Quelques Œuvres Importantes de Corot à Van Gogh: Organisée au Profit de l’Œuvre l’Enfance Malheureuse, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 11–June 16, 1934, no. 60, as Neige, route de Louveciennes.

Exposition de tableaux par Alfred Sisley, 1840–1899, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, January 23–February 13, 1937, no. 13, as La route de la Princesse, en hiver.

Chefs-d’œuvre de l’art français, Palais de Tokio, Paris, June 25–October 1937, no. 417, as Route de la Princesse, à Louveciennes, le soir.

Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 256, as The Route de la Princesse in Winter.

Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York: For The Benefit of St. Luke’s Hospital Center Building Fund, Knoedler Gallery, New York, January 12–29, 1966, no. 35, as The Route de la Princesse at Louveciennes.

New York Collects, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 210, as La Route de la Princesse à Louveciennes.

"One Hundred Years of Impressionism": A Tribute to Durand-Ruel; A Loan Exhibition For the Benefit of the New York University Art Collection, Wildenstein, New York, April 2–May 9, 1970, no. 26, as Une Rue à Louveciennes.

The Bloch Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June–August 1982, no cat.

Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters from the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9–September 9, 2007, no. 10, as Rue de la Princesse, Winter (La rue de la princesse, l’hiver).

Gallery Label

This work may record the remnants of the major snowstorm that other Impressionist artists painted during the especially harsh winter of 1874–1875. The apparent simplicity of Alfred Sisley’s tranquil scene disguises complex techniques, such as the parallel vertical lines and alternating patches of peaches and blues, by which he created a balanced and harmonious composition.

Most of Sisley’s paintings are relatively small in size. This made it easy for him to transport the canvas and paint outdoors, but the canvas was also ideally scaled for the domestic interiors of potential collectors.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist at his sale, Tableaux et aquarelles par Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, A. Renoir, A. Sisley, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 24, 1875, no. 63, as Route de la Princesse (le soir), by Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1875 [1];

John Burke, London, by April 4, 1899;

Purchased from Burke by Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock no. L 5125, as La Route de la Princesse en hiver, hameau de Voisins, Louveciennes, April 4, 1899–no later than 1901 [2];

Purchased from Galeries Durand-Ruel by Joseph Durand-Ruel (1862–1928), Paris, by 1901–December 30, 1928;

Estate of Durand-Ruel, 1928–1949 [3];

To Durand-Ruel’s daughter and son-in-law, Marie-Louise (née Durand-Ruel, 1897–1991) and Jean (1895–1985) d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1949–September 16, 1964 [4];

Purchased from Mr. and Mrs. d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc by Sam Salz Inc., New York, 1964–no later than January 12, 1966 [5];

Purchased from Salz by Mr. Clifford William (1911–1976) and Mrs. Barbara Lloyd (née Richards, 1918–1978) Michel, New York, by 1966–November 29, 1978 [6];

Estate of Barbara Lloyd Michel, 1978–February 2, 1979 [7];

Purchased from the Michel estate by William Beadleston, Inc., New York, as Une Rue à Louveciennes—Le Soir, February 2–April 16, 1979 [8];

Purchased from Beadleston by Marion (née Helzberg, 1931–2013) and Henry (1922–2019) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, 1979–June 15, 2015;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

NOTES:

[1] Ronald Pickvance was the first scholar to identify no. 63 as the Nelson-Atkins painting. See Ronald Pickvance, "Sisley’s House at Louveciennes," Burlington Magazine 156, no. 1333 (April 2014): 237–38, 238n6. The procès-verbaux from the Hôtel Drouot sale indicate that the work was purchased by Durand-Ruel for 130 francs; see Merete Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’," Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968): 335. Durand-Ruel confirmed this purchase, as per their annotated sales catalogue, but cannot find the Nelson-Atkins painting in their stock books until 1899, when they reaquired the picture from John Burke. See email from Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, to Meghan Gray, NAMA, February 16, 2016, and email from Flavie Durand-Ruel to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, April 6, 2022, NAMA curatorial files.

[2] For the purchase date, see emails from Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, to Nicole Myers, NAMA, January 11, 2016, and to Meghan Gray, NAMA, February 16, 2016, NAMA curatorial files. The precise date of sale to Joseph Durand-Ruel is unknown, but the painting was in his possession by 1901. See email from Flavie Durand-Ruel to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, April 19, 2022, NAMA curatorial files.

[3] After Joseph Durand-Ruel’s death on December 30, 1928, his art collection was retained by his estate and gradually distributed to heirs over the course of two decades. See emails from Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, April 20, 2022, NAMA curatorial files.

[4] For the sale date of September 16, 1964, see email from Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, to Nicole Myers, NAMA, January 11, 2016, NAMA curatorial files.

[5] Sam Salz (1894–1981) sold Rue de la Princesse, Evening to Clifford and Barbara Michel sometime prior to January 12, 1966, when the couple loaned the painting to Knoedler Gallery’s exhibition Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York (January 12–29, 1966). Per Betsy Michel (née Shirley, b. 1942), daughter-in-law of Clifford and Barbara Michel, her in-laws purchased their entire art collection from Salz. Verbal communication from Betsy Michel to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, March 11, 2022; see notes in NAMA curatorial files.

[6] After Clifford Michel passed away on March 8, 1976, the painting remained in his wife’s possession until her own death on November 29, 1978.

[7] See memorandum by Clifford Lloyd "Mickey" Michel (1939–2004) entitled "Estate of Barbara R. Michel: Paintings and Scupture to be Sold," January 15, 1979, NAMA curatorial files. The memo bears a handwritten note dated February 2, 1979, which states: "Agreement reached to sell the 14 items (12 paintings and drawings and 2 sculptures) as a single lot." See also emails from Dr. Martin Morad, University of South Carolina, to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, March 14, 28, and 29, 2022, NAMA curatorial files, confirming William Beadleston’s purchase of Rue de la Princesse, Evening from the Michel estate.

[8] For the sale date of April 16, 1979, see invoice no. G-279 from William Beadleston, Inc., NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Catalogue des tableaux et aquarelles par Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, A. Renoir, A. Sisley (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, March 24, 1875), 14, as Route de la Princesse (le soir).

"Informations," Le Figaro, no. 85 (March 26, 1875): 2.

Théodore Duret, Histoire des Peintres Impressionnistes, 4th ed. (1906; repr., Paris: Librairie Floury, 1939), 80, 84, (repro.), as Route de la Princesse à Louveciennes.

Vittorio Pica, "Artisti contemporanei: Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley," Emporium 26, no. 153 (September 1907): 176, (repro.), as Una via di sera a Louveciennes.

Exposition de tableaux de feu Sisley, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1908), as La Route de la Princesse.

René X[avier] Prinet, "Exposition Durand-Ruel: Sisley," La Grande revue 47 (February 25, 1908): 815, as Route de la Princesse.

Vittorio Pica, Gl’Impressionisti Francesi (Bergamo, Italy: Istituto italiano d’arti grafiche, 1908), 7, 138, (repro.), as Una via di sera a Louveciennes.

Cent Ans de Peinture Française: Exposition au Profit du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, exh. cat. (Paris: Imp. Union, 1922), unpaginated, as La route de la Princesse en hiver.

Paysages par Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1933), no. 40.

Quelques Œuvres Importantes de Corot à Van Gogh: Organisée au Profit de l’Œuvre l’Enfance Malheureuse, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1934), unpaginated, as Neige, route de Louveciennes.

Chefs-d’œuvre de l’art français, exh. cat. (Paris: Palais National des Arts, 1937), 1:201, as Route de la Princesse, à Louveciennes, le soir.

Exposition de tableaux par Alfred Sisley, 1840–1899, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1937), unpaginated, as La route de la Princesse, en hiver.

Léon Gerbe, "La peinture française: Sisley et quelques autres," Le Peuple, no. 6291 (April 13, 1938): 4, as Route de la princesse à Louveciennes, le soir.

Giuseppe Maria Lo Duca, "Il centenario di Alfred Sisley (1839–1939)," Emporium 90, no. 539 (November 1939): 238.

Pierre Francastel, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (Paris: Albert Skira, 1939), unpaginated, (repro.).

Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l’impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley et autres; Mémoires de Durand-Ruel; Documents (Paris: Durand-Ruel, 1939), 2:201.

Hans Graber, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet: Nach eigenen und fremden Zeugnissen (Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1943), 116.

John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), 288, 321, 474, (repro.), as Road at Louveciennes.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, exh. cat. (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1949), 66, 153, 159, as The Route de la Princesse in Winter.

Gotthard Jedlicka, Sisley (Berne: Alfred Scherz, 1949), 30, (repro.), as Louveciennes. Strasse am Abend.

Lionello Venturi, Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, trans. Francis Steegmuller (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950), 84–85, (repro.), as The Route de la Princesse, Louveciennes, Evening.

Maurice Raynal, The Nineteenth Century: New Sources of Emotion from Goya to Gauguin, trans. James Simmons (Geneva: Editions d’Art Albert Skira, 1951), 115, 148, (repro.), as La Route de la Princesse à Louveciennes.

Emmanuel Fougerat, Sisley ([Arcueil, France]: Innotheìra, Laboratoire Chantereau, [1953]), unpaginated, (repro.), as La Route.

Lionello Venturi, De Manet aÌ Lautrec: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Ceìzanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, trans. Juliette Bertrand (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1953), 116, 308, (repro.), as Le Route de la Princesse à Louveciennes, le soir.

François Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint (Lausanne: Éditions Durand-Ruel, 1959), no. 168, pp. 345, 349, (repro.), as Une Rue à Louveciennes – Le Soir.

François Daulte, Sisley: Paysages (Lausanne: International Art Book, 1961), 28.

Horst　Büttner, Farbige Gemäldewiedergaben Alfred Sisley (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1964), 12.

Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York: For The Benefit of St. Luke’s Hospital Center Building Fund, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler, 1966), 43, (repro.), as The Route de la Princesse at Louveciennes.

Merete Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’," Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968): 333, 335, as route de la princesse [le soir].

New York Collects, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968), 42, as La Route de la Princesse à Louveciennes.

Hilton Kramer, "In the Genteel Tradition," New York Times 117, no. 40,349 (July 14, 1968): D25.

"One Hundred Years of Impressionism": A Tribute to Durand-Ruel; A Loan Exhibition For the Benefit of the New York University Art Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein, 1970), unpaginated, (repro.), as Une Rue à Louveciennes.

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Ronald Pickvance, Alfred Sisley (1839–1899): Impressionist Landscapes, exh. cat. (Nottingham: Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1971), 20.

Raymond Cogniat, Sisley, trans. Alice Sachs (New York: Crown, 1978), 92.

Sophie Monneret, L’Impressionnisme et son époque (Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1979), 2:264, as Route de la princesse le soir.

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Jacques Lassaigne and Sylvie Gache-Patin, Sisley (Paris: Nouvelles eìditions françaises, 1983), 12, 46.

Andrea P. A. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh cat. (1984; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990), 102, as A Street in Louveciennes at Evening Time.

Marie-Amynthe Denis, Jacques Laÿ, and Monique Laÿ, De Renoir aÌ Vuillard: Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes, leurs environs . . ., exh. cat. (Louveciennes: Museìe-Promenade de Marly-le-Roi-Louveciennes, 1984), 97, as Une rue à Louveciennes, le soir.

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Eric Adler, "Sold for $3.25 million, Bloch’s home in Mission Hills may be torn down," Kansas City Star 141, no. 90 (December 16, 2020): 2A.

Joséphine Le Foll, L’Impressionnisme (Paris: Éditions Citadelles et Mazenod, 2020), 68–69, (repro.), as Route de la princesse, l’hiver.

Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2020), 344–45.

Sylvie Brame and François Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des arts, 2021), no. 166, pp. 22, 24, 94, 428, 515–17, 519–20, 522, 549, (repro.), as La maison de Sisley, rue de la Princesse, Louveciennes, le soir.

Brigid M. Boyle, “Alfred Sisley, Rue de la Princesse, Evening, 1875,” catalogue entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2023), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.658.5407.

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