''Ferry to the Ile-de-la-Loge – Flood'' is a painting by

Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 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 dedicatio ...

. He produced it during a flood on the

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, which had begun in late October and reached its peak on 17 December. The painting was finished in December 1872. It was bought for 200 francs by

Durand-Ruel Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste ...

on 21 January 1873Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, ''Manet, Gauguin, Rodin...: chefs-d'oeuvre de la Ny Carlsberg glyptotek de Copenhague, Réunion des musées nationaux'', 1995, , 1995, p. 91 and exhibited at the

First Impressionist Exhibition The First Impressionist Exhibition was an art exhibition held by the , a group of nineteenth-century artists who had been rejected by the official Paris Salon (Paris), Salon and pursued their own venue to exhibit their artworks. The exhibition wa ...

in April 1874 as number 162 MaryAnne Stevens, in ''Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 3 July-18 October 1992, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 28 October 1992-31 January 1993, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 14 March-13 June 1993'', Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992, p. 122 It was later owned by

François Depeaux François Depeaux (13 July 1853 - 11 October 1920) was a French industrialist, art collector and patron. He was one of the defenders of the Rouen School. Life He was born in Bois-Guillaume. He bought a coal mine near Swansea in Wales and develo ...

before forming part of the Depeaux sale at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris on 31 May 1906. It was acquired by the

Carlsberg Foundation Carlsberg Foundation ( da, Carlsbergfondet) was founded by J. C. Jacobsen in 1876, by allocating some of his shares in the Carlsberg Brewery to fund and operate the Carlsberg Laboratory and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Palace. ...

in 1914 and later that year it was exhibited at the

Statens Museum for Kunst The National Gallery of Denmark ( da, Statens Museum for Kunst, also known as "SMK", literally State Museum for Art) is the Danish national gallery, located in the centre of Copenhagen. The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and han ...

before being acquired later the same year by its present owner, the

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root ''glyphein'', to carve, and ''theke'', storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket, is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collection ...

in Copenhagen.

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