View_of_Montmartre_from_Cité_des_Fleurs_to_Les_Batignolles
View of Montmartre from Cité des Fleurs to Les Batignolles
1869 painting by Alfred Sisley
View of Montmartre from Cité des Fleurs to Les Batignolles is an oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in spring 1869 and now in the Musée de Grenoble. It bears national museums reference France Inv. MG 1317.[2] It was given to that museum in 1901 by the artist's friend and fellow painter Joseph-Auguste Rousselin,[3] only two years after Sisley's death. It is one of the first Impressionist paintings to depict Montmartre, showing it as in very verdant surrounds.