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A Couple (Les Fiancés) also known as The Engaged Couple or Alfred Sisley and his Wife, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), created around 1868 during his early Salon period at a time when he focused on thematic works about couples.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and his Wife, 1868. Sisley was born in Paris to affluent British parents. His father, William Sisley, was in the silk business, and his mother, Felicia Sell, was a cultivated music connoisseur. In 1857, at the age of 18, Alfred Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it ...
The portrait features Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) and his then long-term partner Marie-Louise Adelaide-Eugenie Sisley, who would later become his wife. They are seated at the dinner table in Bracquemond's home, lit by the light of a gas lamp. [ 2 ]
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the British Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley, who was born to British parents in France, where he subsequently spent the majority of his life. Timeline. 1839 Born in Paris; 1839–1870 Paris; 1870–1875 Louveciennes, Yvelines (visit to England, 1874)
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It is unclear who the other two people might be. Marie-Louise Adelaide-Eugenie Sisley, the future wife of Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), and Sisley himself are said to possibly appear seated in The Dinner. However, this becomes less clear in the companion piece of Interior, after Dinner.
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