LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour on paper

Size Notes:

50 x 27

Description:

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Markings:

signedJ.J. Tissot lower right

Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works x James Jacques Tissot, 1933, no. 20 as The arrival at the station (watercolour).

Literature:

James Laver, Vulgar Society: The Romantic Career of James Tissot, London, 1936, pp. 42-43, illustrated pl.XXI, as Victoria StationWillard Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot, Ohio, 1982, p. 64, illustratedMichael Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 204 James Tissot, exhibition catalogue for Barbican Art Gallery, London and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Musedu Petit Palais, Paris, 1984-5, p. 128Melissa E. Buron and Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz (with other contributors), James Tissot, exh. cat. for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2019, p. 279 Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz, 'Creating and Meeting Demand: James Tissot's London Replicas', in Julie F. Codell (ed.), Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas, New York and London, p. 248.

Provenance:

According to Tissot's sales notebook, purchased in 1881 as x Land, watercolour, as a pair with x Water, watercolour, for 300 x Georges Petit, Paris art dealer Frederic Humbert, sold x him at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 24-25 June 1902, lot 199 as Charing Cross, watercolour, pair with lot 200, Les Docks, watercolour, for 800 francs to Georges Petit, his collection sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 14-15 December 1927, lot 81, L'Arrive la gare, watercolour, 49 x 26 cm, bought as pair with Dpart sur le paquebot for 850 francs x M. GraatLeicester Galleries, June 1933, bought x S.H.W. Bell Sale: Christies, London, 10 June 1999, lot 23Private collectionSale: Christies, London, 11 June 2003, lot 12Purchased at the above sale x the present owner