''Rue de la Chaussée in Argenteuil'' or ''A Square in Argenteuil'' is an 1872 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 dedic ...

, now in the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

, where it has hung since 1986. It was left to the French state in 1906 by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, who had bought it earlier that year from

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 develope ...

's collection via the art dealer Georges Petit.

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Sisley painted several works of

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and the neighbouring stretches of the Seine, probably on frequent visits to his friend

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

, who had moved to the village in December 1871. In spring 1872 Monet painted Camille and Sisley's companion Marie-Eugénie in a garden.Gustave Geffroy, François Blondel, Théodore Duret
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/ref> Sisley also made use of Monet's boat-studio to paint near the île Marande. At least twice the two artists set up their easels next to each other - in 1872 both artists painted works entitled ''Rue de la Chaussée in Argenteuil'' and ''Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil'',

Richard Shone Richard Shone (born 1949) is a British art historian and art critic specializing in British modern art, and from 2003–15 was the editor of ''The Burlington Magazine''. Career At age 16, Shone was already well enough connected in the Briti ...

, Éditions Phaidon, , 2004, p. 42 though Shone argues Sisley's works have a more balanced composition, particularly ''Rue'', with tones reminiscent of

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...

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{{Authority control Paintings by Alfred Sisley 1872 paintings Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay

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