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The Small Meadows in Spring, By (French Les Petits Prés au printemps, By) is an 1881 painting by Alfred Sisley, on loan from Tate Britain to the National Gallery since 1997.The location it shows is now paved, but was then a wooded path along the left bank of the Seine linking the villages of Veneux-les-Sablons and By, with Champagne-sur-Seine in the right background and a young girl just left of centre, probably the artist's twelve-year-old daughter Jeanne. The same path appears in mirror-image in his The Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather.
Veneux-les-Sablons Champagne-sur-Seine Seine Tate Britain By The Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather Alfred Sisley National Gallery