Information: Art Case
’The Footbridge’ ©1867 alfredsisleymonogram.com
Research Pages confirm the importance of 'The Footbridge’ ©1867 in the artist’s ouevre.
Discovered on alfredsisleymonogram.com with dates:
Nuance of Brushstroke
2017
Sequencing Motif
2025
Monogram
2012
Archway Motif
2017
Woodland Scene Palette
2018
Unobtrusive Monogram
Alfred Sisley’s monogram in 'The Footbridge’ and 'The Lesson’ rightly takes it’s place in the tradition of optical illusion in Art history.
Famous Examples:
Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eycks dated 1434: artist visible in the convex mirror
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein dated 1533: anamorphic skull
Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali dated 1937: Double image
Unlocking the monogram in 2012 allows for the misdirection and camouflage
techniques behind the optical illusion to be studied.
Evidentually, Alfred Sisley wanted his monogram to be 'audacious’.
Challenging himself as an artist to pull it off and in the viewing, testing if it is seen.
BRAME & LORENCEAU: Comite Alfred Sisley
’The Footbridge’ ©1867
1. In reply to our submission of the painting in 2012,
’We do not recognise the hand of Sisley in any part of the painting’
Francois Lorenceau letter of 20th September 2012 on behalf of Comite Alfred Sisley.
2. Our letter of 8th May 2018 submitted Nuance of Brushstroke and Archway Motif
in the 'Comparison: Sous Bois 1886′ as ”new evidence”.
Brame & Lorenceau has not replied.
Monogram
1. In reply to our submission of 'The Footbridge’ monogram in 2012,
’As far as we know such a monogram has never existed in Sisley’s work. Sorry not to be able to help you any further’
Francois Lorenceau email of 11th January 2013 on behalf of Comite Alfred Sisley.
2. In reply to our submission of 'The Lesson’ monogram in 2013,
’Our position is that after detailed and thorough studies of what you call monograms, we are not in a position to see what you see’
Reference: 'a blurred monogram recognised only by you and not by us’
’As stated before, an element such as monogram and / or signature is by far unsufficient to declare a painting authentic by the contemplated artist’
Francois Lorenceau email of 14th May 2013 on behalf of Comite Alfred Sisley.
Director of Art Research
International Foundation For Art Research
500 Fifth Avenue New York NY10110 USA
Our emails of 5th October 2017 8th October 1017 and 15th October 2017 submission of the discoveries 'Nuance of Brushstroke and Archway Motif’ for a review and considerations of the Art Case.
Dr Duffy-Zeballos emails of October 2017, informed the case is not for IFAR
SISLEY Richard Shone (1992 Phaidon Press)
NOTES Chapter 4: 5 'The house at 2 rue de la Princesse was almost certainly the scene of one of Sisley’s very few interiors, the celebrated 'The Lesson’ (Plate 19) which shows Jeanne and Pierre Sisley working at a dining-table’.
Plate 19: Detail 'Vase of Flowers’
’The Lesson’ monogram: Misdirection Technique
Addition – Trail of Red Paint (2025 alfredsisleymonogram.com)
The close-up of the vase of flowers to the left of the Mantel Clock highlights the vibrancy of the brushstrokes in this part of the painting. Thickly applied 'daubs of red and orange’ paint mixed with white paint in the rendering of the flowers.
Trail of Red Paint
Quite deliberately, there is a trail of red paint from the large daub above Jeanne’s head across to the fallen petals near the Mantel Clock across to the Vase of Flowers.
Leading the viewer away from the location of the unobtrusive monogram.
John Rewald Early 1980’s Contact
Impressionist Scholar was contacted about a possible attribution of 'The Footbridge’ to Camille Pissarro. In doubting this, the acclaimed expert kindly noted the Corot influences and the Impressionist Palette and Brushstrokes. Dating the painting, ©1867. Opening-up the question 'who got that close to Camille Pissarro?’.
Roland Bentley made the contact and in 2012 discovered 'The Footbridge’ monogram during the submission to Brame & Lorenceau. In 2017 he discovered the hand of Sisley (nuance of brushstroke) in 'The Footbridge’ ©1867 and 'Sous Bois’ 1886 (1929-2019 History / Art Teacher: York UK).