LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and watercolor, heightened with touches of white on paper

Measurements:

12.20 in. (31.00 cm.) (height) by 5.98 in. (15.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'J.J. Tissot' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Société d'Aquarellistes Française, 1883, no. 2. London, Barbican Art Gallery, and Paris, Petit Palais, James Tissot, 15 November 1984 - 20 January 1985, no. 53, ex-catalogue.

Literature:

A. de Lostalot, ‘James Tissot’, in E. Strahan (ed.), Society of French Aquarellists, Paris, 1883, p. 383 (illustrated in line drawing, after the watercolour). M. Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 133, no. 21. K. Matyjaszkiewicz (ed.), James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 120, under no. 110.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Kennedy & Wolfenden, Belfast, 15 May 1984, lot 114. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 February 1994, lot 182.