This Mirror Page connects several fables


Louveciennes and Le Vésinet

Louveciennes, on the south side of the Seine, and Le Vésinet, on the north side are now absorbed into the western suburbs of Paris. Once the railway line from Paris to St. Germain-en-Laye opened in the mid-19th century, painters, musicians, writers and dancers soon followed it out there. Alfred Sisley, the impressionist, captures the era with these two paintings of Louveciennes. It was only slightly earlier that Bizet had moved to Le Vésinet to become a neighbor of La Mogador and in the early 1930s Josephine Baker and Anaïs Nin would live in Louveciennes.

Chemin de la Machine Louveciennes, painted in 1873.

Early Snow at Louveciennes, painted in 1871-1872.