Description

This painting is a reproduction of “Boat in the Flood at Port Marly” (also known as L’Inondation à Port-Marly or The Bark During the Flood), an 1876 oil painting by the French Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley.
Painting Details
Artist: Alfred Sisley (1839–1899).
Date Created: 1876.
Style: Impressionism.
Original Medium: Oil on canvas.
Location: One version is housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France, and another at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.

The painting is part of a series of works Sisley created documenting a significant flood of the Seine river in the spring of 1876 in the village of Port-Marly, where he was living at the time. Sisley created six paintings of this event, focusing on the interplay of water, light, and reflections rather than the dramatic nature of the disaster. The building depicted is the house of a wine merchant, which had become an improvised landing stage for boats.