This hall is devoted to the Impressionists Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) and Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), who both worked mainly in the landscape genre.
Sisley, who was of English ancestry, most often painted the countryside of the French provinces, keenly sensing and subtly embodying its lyrical qualities in his works. His paintings, the earliest of which dates from 1872 and the latest from 1884, show how his Impressionistic manner developed.
Among Pissarro’s works that give an idea of his painting over a thirty-year period between 1873 and 1903, urban views typical of him predominate, primarily of Paris. They captured the dynamic life of the modern city and its ever-changing appearance. He also painted the Still Life with a Coffeepot (1900), a venture into a genre rare in his oeuvre.
