Moret-sur-Loing Cemetery

Alfred Sisley, like *Pissarro**, liked to paint rural landscapes, Parisian waterways and village streets. Attached to the Impressionist movement he helped create, Sisley, a discreet artist, painted peaceful countryside scenes. Having been inspired by the Loing valley, he moved to Moret-sur-Loing in 1882.

It was in this charming village near Fontainebleau that he spent the last few years of his life, in total simplicity. He died in 1899, without obtaining the French nationality he had so coveted. He is buried in Moret cemetery, under a heavy rock in the shade of an imposing cypress tree.
An environment befitting the epitaph on his tomb, which proclaims, ”objects must be enveloped in light as they are in nature”.

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