''Villeneuve-la-Garenne'', ''Village Beside the Seine'' or ''Village on the Seine'' is an 1872 oil-on-canvas 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 ...

, now in the

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...

in St Petersburg.

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Sisley visited

Villeneuve-la-Garenne Villeneuve-la-Garenne () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region. History The commune of Villeneuve-la-Garenne was created on 9 ...

, producing at least five paintings there.François Blondel
Alfred Sisley
p. ii Its composition recalls that of '' The Seine at Bennecourt'' (1868;

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) by Sisley's friend

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

. Just out of frame to the left is the town's bridge, the subject of Sisley's ''

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne ''The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne'' is an oil on canvas painting by Alfred Sisley created in 1872. It depicts a suspension bridge across the Seine looking toward the village of Villeneuve-la-Garenne. Holidaymakers can be seen on the river ...

'' (

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, Éditions Phaidon, , 2004, p. 51). Sisley sold it to

Paul 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 24 August 1872.

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, ''Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 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. 120 It was acquired in 1898 by Pyotr Shchukin of Moscow, then by

Sergei Shchukin Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Щу́кин; 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Early life and family Sergei I ...

in 1912. After the

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of 1918 it entered the Museum of Western Modern Art, before moving to its present home in 1948.

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