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Generally, the Impressionists showed the Seine River as a place of weekend leisure for Parisians, painting activities such as boating, yachting, promenading, and dining. Sisley depicted the river during the workweek, along with some of the men who depended on it for their livelihood.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Of all the landscapes Alfred Sisley painted in and around France's Marly-le-Roi, where he lived from 1875 to 1878, this scene of workers dredging sand to facilitate barge traffic is perhaps the most original. Unlike other Impressionists who showed the Seine River as a place of weekend leisure for Parisians, Sisley depicted the river during the workweek, along with some of the men who depended on it for their livelihood.","dimensions":"54.5 \u00d7 73.7 cm (21 7\/16 \u00d7 29 in.); Framed: 71.5 \u00d7 90.5 \u00d7 9.6 cm (28 1\/8 \u00d7 35 5\/8 \u00d7 3 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":73,"height":54,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":9,"width":90,"height":71,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower left: Sisley. 75","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Fran\u00e7ois Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019Oeuvre Peint (Lausanne, 1959), no. 176.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 83 (ill.), 286.\n\nStevens, MaryAnne. 2010. \u201cAlfred Sisley \u2013 Ecology.\u201d In From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism. Exh. cat., pp 78, 80. Skira. \n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 16, p. 53(ill.).","exhibition_history":"Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, A. Sisley, February 1897, cat. 19.\n\nParis, Exposition Centennale de L\u2019Art Fran\u00e7ais, 1800-1889, 1900, cat. 614, as La Seine \u00e0 Port-Marly, 1875, appartient \u00e0 M. George Viau.\n\nParis, Georges Petit, Exposition d\u2019oeuvres d\u2019Alfred Sisley, May 7-June 1917, cat. 64.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013November 1, 1933, cat. 302, as Sand Heaps, 1875.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013November 1, 1933, cat. 262.\n\nPark Forest, Ill, Exhibition, March 25-April 22, 1956, no cat.\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, cat. 17 (ill.), as Les Tas de sable, 1875.\n\nLos Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art \/ Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago \/ Paris, Galeries Nationales d\u2019Exposition du Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28 - September 6, 1984 \/ October 23, 1984 - January 6, 1985 \/ February 8 - April 2, 1985, cat. 23 (ill.), as The Seine of Port Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875.\n\nLondon, Royal Academy of Arts, Alfred Sisley, July 3-October 18, 1992, cat. 33, as The Seine at Port-Marly: Heaps of Sand, 1875; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, October 26, 1992-February 7, 1993; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, March 14-'june 13, 1993.\n\nWashington, DC, Phillips Collection, Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, September 21-February 9, 1997, no cat. no., pl.45, as The Seine of Port Marly, Piles of Sand, 1875.\n\nTokyo, Isetan Museum, Alfred Sisley Retrospective, March 2- April 17, 2000; Takamatsu City Art Museum, Kagawa, April 22- May 21, 2000; Hiroshima Museum of Art,  May 27- July 2, 2000; The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, July 8- September 10, 2000.\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013November 2, 2008, cat. 16 (ill.).","provenance_text":"Georges Viau, Paris; his sale, Galeries Durand-Ruel, March 4, 1907, lot 74 (ill.), as La Seine \u00e0 Port-Marly, 1875; bought in by Durand-Ruel [acc. to London 1992]. Georges Bernheim, Paris, April 1920 [acc. to archival Registrar card]; Martin A. 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