In 1881 Sisley was beset by financial problems and moved to the area of small towns along the Forest of Fontainebleau to the southeast of Paris. Although he did not permanently settle in Moret-sur-Long until 1889,
he depicted it on a significant number of occasions during the previous year. Rather than a series devoted to a single motif in the manner of Monet, this is a group of works that comprises a visual mapping of a
place, painted from different viewpoints at different times of the day and over the course of the seasons. An Afternoon in Moret, late October is the last work within a sub-group of four paintings on the town’s
communal laundry on the riverbank. The composition is carefully devised from horizontals and verticals and deploys a range of different types of brushstrokes. As in many works by the artist the sky is the principal
motif, painted in tones of purple, mauve and cadmium yellow.
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