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OUR CLAIM
ALFRED SISLEY’S
MONOGRAM
MONOGRAM
Unlocking the design and audacious location is ”How to See” the unobtrusive monogram.
VIEWING TEST
Camouflage and Misdirection techniques and the audacious location create the viewing test
Monogram takes it’s place in the tradition of optical illusion in Art
RE-CONTEXTUALISED
Placed at the corner of the stone pier in 'The Footbridge’ painting, matched at the corner of the mantel clock in 'The Lesson’. Black and White hues of the slow-flowing river, also matched above Jeanne’s head.
Early example of the Sequencing Motif counters Pareidolia and Denialism
PORTRAIT OF JEANNE SISLEY ©1875
by PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Unique to the Art Case, the monograms part in the family life of the Sisley’s and Renoir’s artistic collaboration.
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OUR CLAIM
THE FOOTBRIDGE ©1867
(attributed to Alfred Sisley)
Alfred Sisley kept 'The Footbridge’ painting in his mind’s eye.
Evidentually, returns to the sequence of features along the oblique angle of the footbridge in:
'A Path at Les Sablons’ 1883
'Snow Scene: Moret Station’ 1888
Monogram re-contextualised in 'The Lesson’ ©1874
see research pages on 'Sequencing Motif’.
Importance of the painting in the artist’s oeuvre is confirmed by:
Monogram
Captured in time, the likely figure of Eugenie Lescouezec approaching the monogram fused into the slow-flowing water.
Impressionist Palette
The emergence of the color palette is established in the work, dated ©1867
Woodland Scene Palette
A key preference in later woodland scenes is to return to the darker hues of this color palette.
Compositional Motifs (landscape features)
In later works, returns to the oblique angle of the footbridge, pathway leading into the distance, poplars extending out of the canvas and the 'archway’ feature.
Discovery of Alfred Sisley’s Monogram
The design and audacious location were unlocked in September 2012.
Digital photography enabled sections of 'The Footbridge’ painting to be enlarged and studied. In the area around the stone-pier, it became obvious the monogram was fused into the flow of water. A brief search for another example found 'The Lesson’ monogram in December 2012.
See Page: Third Monogram?
The Lesson painting remains the only known 'unsigned’ work in the Catalogue Raisonne.