# Watering Place at Marly

**Alfred Sisley** (British)  
1875  
Oil on canvas  
39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 80.7 × 9.6 cm (25 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.875. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/37741).

## About this work

In 1875 Alfred Sisley moved to the French village of Marly-le-Roi. His home flanked the pool, or “watering place,” featured on the left of this canvas, which had once been the water gardens of King Louis XIV's country retreat. Sisley faithfully depicted landscapes throughout his career, spending most of his life painting in the villages along the Seine River, in the region referred to as the cradle of Impressionism.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

Alfred Sisley painted this in 1875. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on canvas.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

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## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- Real size: about 15 × 22 in (39 × 56 cm). The 18 × 24 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Subjects: landscape, fences, bridge, people, figure, house, building, trees
- Colour: olive
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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