描述
鲁弗申放牧的牛群
阿尔弗莱德 • 西斯莱 (1839-1899)
1874 年
布面油画
60厘米×73厘米
鲁弗申是巴黎西郊的宁静村庄，距巴黎约25 公里。从前这里风景安静怡人，是创作风景画的绝佳地点。而现在，由于到巴黎通勤的人不断增多，鲁弗申逐渐成为了卫星城。
在1874 年第一次创办印象派画展前的几年中，印象派画家们经常在鲁弗申支起画架进行创作。
据说，最早来到此地的印象派画家是卡米耶·毕沙罗，他手 1868 年秋天从蓬图瓦兹移居到鲁弗申，在普法战争爆发的 1870年以及 1871 年、1872 年一直居住此地。
皮埃尔一奥古斯特•雷诺阿的母亲于1868 年搬到附近，因此雷诺阿也在此地生活过一段时间。
1869年，莫奈带着情人卡米尔和儿子移居鲁弗申，在此地进行创作。
大概在同年初秋，雷诺阿和莫奈开始一起在格雷诺伊勒尔进行创作。
不过，与鲁弗申结缘最深的画家还要说是阿尔弗莱德·西斯莱。西斯莱于 1869 年拜访了雷诺阿和莫奈，并在次年（1870 年）夏天搬到了鲁弗申。在 1875 年移居马里勒鲁瓦之前，西斯莱在这里度过了 19 世纪70年代的前半段，并不断进行创作。
这个时期，西斯莱通过柔和的印象主义手法表现鲁弗申的风景，用稳重的笔触描绘郁都葱葱、富于起伏变化的士地。另外，西斯莱在离开鲁弗申之后也经常故地重游，留下了许多富有季节感的作品。
这幅作品描绘的是从鲁弗申街道通向马里勒鲁瓦水边的草坡，也可以理解为从马里勒鲁瓦之丘向鲁弗申眺望的风景。虽然不能十分确定地点，但是国面中从左至右缓缓的斜坡显而易见，右边弯弯的道路为画面增加了重要的曲线元素。在近景的牧草地上，吃草的三头牛构成了画面的视觉中心。画面的左侧树木高耸，一位女性倚靠着树干。在这幅作品中，西斯英创作初期的特征——树叶、夏日天空、云朵、广阔的空间、弯道、光与影等一一都极富气势地展现了出来。色彩（画面中各个部分色彩的色相、明度、色度）十分均匀，富有美感。
Description
Cows in Pasture, Louveciennes
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
1874
Oil on canvas
60 cm × 73 cm
Louveciennes is a quiet village in the western suburbs of Paris, about 25 kilometers away from the center of Paris. With a peaceful scenery spreading out, this village used to be a perfect place for painting landscapes. Today, however, it has turned into a bedroom suburb whose residents commute to and from Paris.
For several years before the first Impressionist exhibition in 1847, Impressionist painters often set up an easel to paint in the open air in this village. The first Impressionist painter who visited this village probably was Camille Pissarro, who moved from Pontoise to Louveciennes in the fall of 1868 and lived there until 1870, when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, and then again from 1871 to 1872. Pierre-Auguste Renoir also lived in Louveciennes for several years after 1868 since his mother moved nearby in 1868. In 1869, Monet moved to Bougival along with his mistress Camille and her son, and executed paintings there. It is probably around the early fall of the same year that Renoir and Monet closely worked together to execute paintings at La Grenouillère. Among others, a painter who had the deepest ties to Louveciennes was Alfred Sisley. The painter visited Renoir and Monet in the winter of 1869, and moved to Louveciennes in the next summer (1870). Sisley spent the first half of the 1870s in this place and executed paintings until he moved to Marly-le-Roi in 1875.
During this period, Sisley painted the sceneries of Louveciennes with the soft impressionistic technique, capturing the atmosphere of this leafy, rugged, and diversified land with gentle brushworks. Even after he left Louveciennes, he visited the village again and again to paint many works filled with the senses of seasons.
It is not certain whether the location depicted in this painting is a road running down from Versailles Avenue toward the watering place at Marly-le-Roi, or conversely, a view from a hill in Marly-le-Roi looking toward Louveciennes, but it seems to be a gentle downward slope running from the left to the right side of the painting. The curve line of the road curving to the right gives an important element to this picture. The three cows grazing on the pasture spreading across the foreground constitute the center of the picture. On the left next to the cows is a towering large tree, against the trunk of which a woman leans. Here, the characteristics seen in Sisley’s early works—the leaves of trees, summer skies and clouds, open spaces, curved paths, light and shadow, etc.—are vigorously represented, and the well-balanced beauty of the valeur (the correlations of hues, brightness, and intensity of the colours between each part of the painting) can be seen. It is likely that this work is one of the five landscape paintings that were exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in April 1874.
展出地点：東京富士美術館 Tokyo Fuji Art Museum,Japan