# The Watering Place at Marly-le-Roi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SISLEY, Alfred]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm ## Commentary The watering place at Marly was constructed during the seventeenth century as part of a large hydraulic system that supplied water to the fountains and pools at the Château de Marly, Louis XIV's country retreat. As part of the king's royal complex, it belonged to the same system as the Marly aqueduct and the Machine the Marly, both of which, like the watering place, Sisley painted on several occasions. By the mid-nineteenth century the château and its environs served as mere remnants of courtly life enjoyed more than one hundred years earlier. The buildings and the grounds had been destroyed during the revolution, and by the time of Sisley's arrival, the reservoir of the once-glamorous château functioned as an area in which to wash clothes and a pond from which horses might drink. ## Related artworks - [After the Debacle, the Seine at Pont de Suresnes]() - [First Snow at Louveciennes]() - [Flood at Port-Marly]() - [Flood at Port-Marly]() - [Grande Rue in Argenteuil]() - [Landscape at Louveciennes]() - [Louveciennes]() - [Marketplace at Marly]() - [Mist]() - [Montmartre]() - [Moret-sur-Loing in Morning Sun]() - [On the Cliffs, Langland Bay, Wales]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()