The Grand-Rue in Argenteuil is an 1872 painting by Alfred Sisley, previously entitled A Street in Sèvres. It is now in Norwich Castle.
Arts journalist Véronique Prat sees the work's perspective, with the tower of Saint-Denys Basilica in a cloudy sky, as influenced by Hokusai.[1]
Provenance
Argenteuil - The Grande Rue c.1900
The work is first recorded in the Parisian galleries of Georges Petit and Bernheim-Jeune, before being sold from the Paul Dognin collection on 15 October 1928 to Durand-Ruel, who sold it three days later to Morot. It later passed to Dora Fulford, who in 1945 left it to the National Art Collections Fund, which allocated it to its present owner later that year.[2]
^(in French) Véronique Prat, Sisley : le charme discret de l'impressionnisme, Le Figaro Magazine, 8 June 2002
^MaryAnne Stevens, Sisley: Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 3 juillet-18 octobre 1992, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 28 octobre 1992-31 janvier 1993, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 14 mars-13 juin 1993, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992, p. 114
