# The Island of Saint-Denis [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SISLEY, Alfred]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 65 cm ## Commentary The Island of Saint-Denis c. 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 x 65 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris Sisley's work around 1870 showed his interest in the colour impressions of trees and buildings and particularly in the shifting play of light and cloud on a landscape. In this painting the outline, as used to define the form of an object, is avoided. The material quality is dissolved; nature becomes merely an illusion. The colours of the spectrum define the colour palette; black, for example, is hardly ever used. ## 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]()