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Allée de châtaigniers à La Celle-Saint-Cloud, also known as Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau, is a pre-impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley, painted in the woods of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in 1865. It is said to have been submitted to the Salon of 1867, but was rejected. Purchased from Sisley by Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1877, in 1919 it joined the collection of Joseph Duveen, who donated it in 1921 to the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, France, where it remains today. Although this painting is described as having been painted in the forest of Fontainebleau by sources from the 1960s, it is described as representing the forest of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in later sources. Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Auguste Renoir, who used to meet at the restaurant Le Tourne-Bride in the village of La Celle above the Château de La Celle, set up their easels at the same approach to the woods of La Celle-Saint-Cloud. According to François Daulte, Sisley stayed at La Celle-Saint-Cloud in May 1865. In 1865, Alfred Sisley painted Allée de châtaigniers à La Celle-Saint-Cloud with Bazille in the woods of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, his first recorded canvas painted on location. He painted at least 2 more on this subject, including a variant canvas with the same title in the same year, now in the Ordrupgaard museum in Copenhagen, and Allée de châtaigniers près de La Celle Saint-Cloud in 1867, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868, now in the Southampton City Art Gallery. In addition to Paul Huet and [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Allée de châtaigniers à la Celle-Saint-Cloud » is kept at Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, France.

 

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