It may be because of the accident of his birth - he was born into an English family which had settled in France two generations earlier - That Sisley has suffered from a certain lack of critical attention, although his paintings have remained consistently popular with the public. Sisley's achievements may also have seemed less radical than those of his fellow Impressionists. He was, like Constable , a pure landscape painter, unconcerned to meet the challenge of narrative figure painting. He celebrated the intimate qualities of the places in which he lived - Louveciennes, Marly-le-Roi and Moret-sur-Loing - exploring the effects of changing light and weather, and mapping the scene from a variety of viewpoints in different seasons. This provided the basis for his own, very personal, solution to the idea of painting in series which was subsequently explored by Monet in the 1890s" (from Sir Roger de Grey's forward to the exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1992). Large format. Very good con