Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud | |
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Artist | Alfred Sisley |
Year | 1865 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 129 cm × 208 cm (51 in × 82 in) [1] |
Location | Petit Palais, Paris |
Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud ( French: Allée de châtaigniers à La Celle-Saint-Cloud) or Edge of the Fontainebleau Forest (French: Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau) is an 1865 pre- Impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in the woods at La Celle-Saint-Cloud. It was refused by the Paris Salon of 1867 and bought by Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1877. It was acquired in 1919 by Joseph Duveen, who in 1921 gave it to the Petit Palais, where it still hangs. [2]