©Pablo Picasso - Spouses Sisley after the 'The Betrothed' by Auguste Renoir 1919

Picasso Spouses Sisley after the 'The Betrothed' by Auguste Renoir 1919
Spouses Sisley after the 'The Betrothed' by Auguste Renoir
1919 pencil, paper
Private collection

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Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
From 1862, he studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts within the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he became acquainted with Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In 1860s Alfred Sisley work with Auguste Renoir in louveciennes.

Portrait of the couple Sisley 75x105cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Portrait of the couple Sisley
1868 75x105cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum,
Cologne, Germany