LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

127 x 86

Description:

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Markings:

signed J.J. Tissot (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1879, no. 99 ; Manchester, Royal Institution, September 1879, no. 8; Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 19th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1880, no. 225; New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Center for British Art,James Tissot, Victorian Life Modern Love, 1999, ex. catalogue

Literature:

Athenaeum, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', no. 2689, 10 May 1879, pp. 607-608 ; Times, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', 2 May 1879, p. 3; Punch, 'Grosvenor Gallery Review', 21 June 1879, pp. 285-87; Spectator, 'Grosvenor Gallery Review', 1879; James Tissot,The Complete Collection of the Artist's Works, Reproduced in a Series of Photographs, Vol. 3, 1876-82, illustrated; Michael Wentworth,James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonn of his Prints,Minneapolis, 1978, no. 46; Willard Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot, Bowling Green, 1982, p. 54, fig. III-5; Michael Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, pp. 145, 147, 203; Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz, (ed.), James Tissot, London, 1984, p. 124, illustrated fig. 57; Muse du Petit Palais, Paris, James Tissot, exh. cat., 1985, p. 211, illustrated fig. 72; Christopher Wood, Tissot, London, 1986, pp. 107, 113; Melissa E. Buron and Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz (with other contributors), James Tissot, exh. cat. for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2019, pp. 257-8, 279, illustrated fig. 118

Provenance:

According to Tissots sales notebook, purchased in 1881 for 160 by Richard Donkin, M.P. (1836 1919), of Albermarle, Wimbledon Common; Sale, Kende Galleries of Gimbel Brothers at Jay Gould MansionNew York, 19 February 1943, lot 61 ; Private collection, East Coast of America; Sale, Christies London, 28 November 2001, lot 21 ; Purchased at the above sale by the present owner