Overcast Day at Saint-Mammès

Alfred Sisley (British (active in France), 1839–1899)

about 1880

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions54.9 x 74.0 cm (21 5/8 x 29 1/8 in.)

Credit LineJuliana Cheney Edwards Collection

Accession number39.679

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Europe

InscriptionsLower right: SisleyProvenanceOctober 28, 1880, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris [see note 1]; from Durand-Ruel, Paris to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 5014); sold by Durand-Ruel, New York to Hannah Marcy Edwards (d. 1929), Boston; 1929, by inheritance to her sister, Grace M. Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Hannah Marcy Edwards to the MFA [see note 2]; June 23, 2011, deaccessioned by the MFA for sale through Sotheby's, New York.

NOTES:
[1] According to François Daulte, "Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint" (Lausanne, 1959), cat. no. 374.

[2] MFA accession date: October 11, 1939 (accession no. 39.679).

Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.