Sisley - The One Overshadowed by Monet

Alfred Sisley was born on 30th October in 1839. He was an Impressionist landscape painter. He rarely painted figures and was the most consistent of all the Impressionists in painting landscape en plein air. Sisley also found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs, unlike Renoir, for example. His style is similar to Monet's, which didn't help him, because he was overshadowed by him.

From 1862 he studied at Paris École des Beaux-Arts, where he met Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Frédéric Bazille. As you already know, they painted together outdoors and when given a chance, they held exhibitions in Paris, but were mostly rejected.

When the Franco-Prussian war began, his father's business failed and so he had to "paint for money". Since 1880 he's been living with his family in a small village near Moret-sur-Loing. There he continued his painting of landscapes: "The gentle landscapes with constantly changing atmosphere were perfectly attuned to his talents. Unlike Monet, he never sought the drama of the rampaging ocean or the brilliantly colored scenery of the Côte d'Azur." (Poulet 1979,p. 77)

Alfred Sisley died on 29 January 1899 because of throat cancer at the age 59, a few months after his wife's death.

Now, I'd like to present Sisley's painting, which has been stolen three times from The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice. It is another landscape from the year 1890. Do you think it was worth the robbery?