Die Kirche von Moret im Regen

By 1894 Alfred Sisley had settled at Moret-sur-Loing, a small town south-east of Paris, and had begun painting its church over and over, in morning light, after rain, in the evening, much as his friend Monet was then working through the cathedral at Rouen. This canvas catches it under a wet sky, the stone greyed and softened by the damp air. Sisley was English by birth and French by life, and never sold well. He painted the church around a dozen times in these years, close to the end. He died at Moret in 1899, a few months after his wife.