Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was a French-Born British Impressionist landscape painter who was born to British parents, but spent most of his life in France. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air. He struggled throughout his life to sell his work, unlike some of the other Impressionist painters who eventually achieved success. The precise date of this vibrant landscape is uncertain. The very loose brushwork is typical of his work in the 1880s when he was living in villages to the south-east of Paris, not far from the forest of Fontainebleau.