Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter

Alfred Sisley

Oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Painted in 1891, Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter depicts a snow-covered street in the village of Moret-sur-Loing, south of Paris, where Alfred Sisley had settled after 1880. The canvas exemplifies Sisley's nuanced Impressionist palette and expertly rendered brushwork, capturing the soft, diffused light characteristic of a quiet winter day. Sisley, born in Paris to British parents and trained alongside Monet and Renoir at the atelier of Gleyre, was the most consistently dedicated landscape painter among the French Impressionists, rarely departing from plein-air work. This painting belongs to a series of winter scenes Sisley produced at Moret, affirming his lifelong commitment to rendering the transient atmospheric effects of the natural world.