Alfred Sisley spent his career painting the villages and countryside along the Seine and Loing rivers outside Paris, favoring quiet, unassuming views of roads, riverbanks, and small towns over grand or fashionable subjects. "A Turn in the Road" reflects this devotion to modest rural motifs, built up with the broken brushwork and attentiveness to changing light central to Impressionist landscape practice. Sisley remained committed to painting directly from nature throughout his life, rarely straying from landscape into the figure or still-life subjects favored by some of his Impressionist colleagues.
Printed edge to edge on a soft, durable woven area rug with a comfortable, non-slip feel.
