Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Moret au coucher du soleil, octobre

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Moret au coucher du soleil, octobre
signed and dated 'Sisley. 88' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 1/2 in. (73.4 x 92.6 cm.)
Painted in Moret-sur-Loing in October 1888

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Provenance
Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris.
Mme Maurice Faure, Paris, by descent from the above in 1914, until at least 1917.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (no. 6360).
Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (no. 14621), by whom acquired from the above in February 1919.
H.D. Hughes, Philadelphia, by whom acquired from the above in December 1920.
Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (no. 15179), by whom acquired from the above in December 1922.
D.H. Carstairs, Philadelphia, by whom acquired from the above in May 1925.
Carroll Carstairs, New York, by 1929 until 1938.
Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above in the 1940s, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2015, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Literature
G. Geffroy, Sisley, Paris, 1927, no. 41, n.p. (illustrated pl. 41).
G. Besson, Sisley, Paris, 1946 (illustrated pl. 48).
G. Jedlicka, Sisley, Berne, 1947 (illustrated pl. 42).
F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 684, n.p. (illustrated fig. 684, n.p.).

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Alfred Sisley, February 1897, no. 22.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Alfred Sisley, 1917, no. 57.
Paris, Galerie Knoedler, Peintres de l'école française du xix Siècle, May 1924, no. 33.