Alfred Sisley is one of Impressionism's most unjustly overlooked artists. This may perhaps be due to the fact that he straddled two different cultures, having been born to English parents in France and later dividing his time between the two countries. As such, though he worked as one of the key figures in French Impressionism, he remained something of an outsider. Unlike his impressionist peers, who examined urban life, industrialization, and people, Sisley was dedicated to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). His landscapes are characterized by tranquility, in pale shades of green, pink, purple, dusty blue and cream.