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The Canal Saint-Martin (painting)

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The Canal Saint-Martin
ArtistAlfred Sisley
Year1872
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions38 cm × 46.5 cm (15 in × 18.3 in)[1]
LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

The Canal Saint-Martin is an 1872 painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Musée d'Orsay, to which it was given in 1907 by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton.[1] The artist was living near the Canal Saint-Martin and the painting formed part of a series of four works showing the canal - another was View of the Canal Saint-Martin.[2] Sisley would have chosen the canal as the subject of a series of 4 canvases because it is an industrial infrastructure and it was close to it.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "Le Canal Saint Martin". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b Frédéric Cousinié, L'Impressionnisme: du plein air au territoire, p. 172. Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. 13 February 2013. ISBN 9791024000060.