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DEACESSIONED June 23, 2011
Saint-Mammès: Morning (Le Matin)
Alfred Sisley (British (active in France), 1839–1899)
1881
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.2 x 73.7 cm (19 3/4 x 29 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William A. Coolidge
Accession Number1993.45
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsSigned, lower right: Sisley
Provenance1912, B. J. Fils, Paris; May 3, 1912, sold by B. J. Fils to Bernheim-Jeune Galleries, Paris (stock nos. 19487 and 19800) [see note 1]; May 4, 1912, sold by Bernheim-Jeune to Hirsch [see note 2]; December 7, 1912, Hirsch sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 46, sold to Félix Gérard, Paris, for 8550 fr. 1917, with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris [see note 3]. 1931, Max Emden (b. 1874 - d. 1940), Hamburg; June 9, 1931, Emden sale, Ball and Graupe, Berlin, lot 49, sold for M 8100 [see note 4]. Probably in the early 1930s, acquired by Siegfried Arndt (b. about 1879 - d. 1958), Berlin and New York [see note 5]; 1958, sold by the estate of Siegfried Arndt to Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. A7088) and Henry Pearlman (b. 1895 - d. 1974), New York (purchased jointly); March 24, 1959, sold by Knoedler to William A. Coolidge (b. 1901 - d. 1992), Boston; 1993, bequest of William A. Coolidge to the MFA [see note 6]; June 23, 2011, deaccessioned by the MFA for sale through Sotheby's, New York.
NOTES:
[1] B. J. Fils was the name of the collection of art owned by Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune. [2] The information about Bernheim-Jeune's transactions is taken from a letter from Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune and Co., Paris (June 6, 2003; in MFA curatorial file). "Hirsch" may be the banker Louis Hirsch (d. 1932) of Paris, who owned at least two other paintings by Sisley. [3] The painting was included in the "Exposition d'oeuvres d'Alfred Sisley," Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 14 - June 7, 1917, no. 7. [4] Titled "Flusslandschaft mit Dorf." [5] Siegfried Arndt had a collection of French Impressionist paintings, which he acquired in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s before emigrating to the United States in the mid-1930s. [6] MFA accession date: January 27, 1993 (accession no. 1993.45).
NOTES:
[1] B. J. Fils was the name of the collection of art owned by Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune. [2] The information about Bernheim-Jeune's transactions is taken from a letter from Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune and Co., Paris (June 6, 2003; in MFA curatorial file). "Hirsch" may be the banker Louis Hirsch (d. 1932) of Paris, who owned at least two other paintings by Sisley. [3] The painting was included in the "Exposition d'oeuvres d'Alfred Sisley," Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 14 - June 7, 1917, no. 7. [4] Titled "Flusslandschaft mit Dorf." [5] Siegfried Arndt had a collection of French Impressionist paintings, which he acquired in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s before emigrating to the United States in the mid-1930s. [6] MFA accession date: January 27, 1993 (accession no. 1993.45).