Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud

Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud () or Edge of the Fontainebleau Forest () is an 1865 pre-Impressionist painting by Alfred Sisley, produced in the woods at La Celle-Saint-Cloud. It was refused by the Paris Salon of 1867 and bought by Jean-Baptiste Faure in 1877. It was acquired in 1919 by Joseph Duveen, who in 1921 gave it to the Petit Palais, where it still hangs.Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette, Origins of Impressionism, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 461-462

See also List of paintings by Alfred Sisley

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