Barges on the Loing at Saint-Mammès

Sisley’s move in 1880 back to the region of the Forest of Fontainebleau was a return to the place he and his companions Monet, Renoir, and Bazille had begun their Impressionist careers some twenty years previously. But unlike the 1860s, which had been filled with the excitement of discovery and the exploration of new ideas, the 1880s found the Impressionists in a state of disarray. To an extent th…