Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun

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Artist: Alfred Sisley
Date: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #7094A0 · 31%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #9A9264 · 14%

Pine Needle · Green family · #244A3C · 12%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #5E775A · 9%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #B28F70 · 8%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #3C686B · 5%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #97B4B7 · 5%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #8FA39B · 5%

Pine Needle · Green family · #102620 · 4%

Slate Night · Black family · #2F2731 · 2%

Blueprint Wash · Blue family · #4E84AA · 2%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #4C4B33 · 1%

Charred Umber · Black family · #251816 · 1%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #523E36 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #B8D4C0 · <1%

Blueprint Wash · Blue family · #6E7E93 · <1%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #3A753A · <1%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #EED0B4 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of Janice H. Levin, 1991

9 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists “Landscapes” as the subject, and the image clearly shows an open meadow, trees, sky, and distant horizon.
Atmospheric Landscapes Visual · 90%

A hazy blue distance, softened contours, and atmospheric transitions between the meadow, tree line, and sky give the landscape a strongly atmospheric character.
Light as Subject Both · 92%

The title identifies morning sun, while the image makes warm illumination and its modulation across the field and sky a central visual feature.

Impressionism Interpretive · 90%

The visible broken brushwork, outdoor landscape subject, and emphasis on changing light are strongly consistent with Impressionist practice; the catalog does not provide an explicit style classification.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 84%

Pink, ocher, yellow-green, blue, and deep green passages create pronounced warm-cool color contrasts across the field, vegetation, and sky.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 92%

Short, directional, visibly textured strokes animate the foliage, grasses, and sunlit field.
Long Distance and Deep Distance Visual · 87%

The meadow recedes toward a distant tree line and blue horizon, producing a clear sense of extended spatial depth.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated 1894, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Alfred Sisley. Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.