Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter

Alfred Sisley1839–1899

1891Oil on canvas

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

Accession

1992.366

Credit

Bequest of Ralph Friedman, 1992

Rights

Public domain: the artist died in 1899. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.

CC0-1.0

Guidance, not legal advice.

Description

A small-town street in winter: banks of snow along a road that curves away between pale houses and a long wall, a few figures walking in the distance, bare trees at the right, and a soft lilac-grey sky.

Image

1600 × 1332source fileretrieved 2026-10-11

Trimmed the dark photographic background around the object, then resized.

Catalogue no.

G-009036coldlibrary.com/g/009036

Credit line

Alfred Sisley, Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, 1891. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009036

Open full size ↗

Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2

Sisley spent his last years in Moret-sur-Loing and painted its streets and river in every season. Snow was one of the Impressionists’ favourite tests, because white is never just white: here it is blue in shadow, pink near the walls and grey under the sky. Nothing dramatic happens, only a cold afternoon in a small town.