LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.26 in. (66.70 cm.) (height) by 38.35 in. (97.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J.J. Tissot (lower right)

Literature:

Probably, "Minor Exhibitions," The Athenaeum, no. 3657, April 2, 1898, p. 445 (as The Convalescent); Probably, "The Chronicle of Art-June," The Magazine of Art, 1898, vol. 22, p. 454; Perry H. Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, London, 1899, illustrated p. 87 (as The Convalescent); Willard Erwin Misfeldt, James Jacques Tissot: A Bio-critical study, PhD diss., Washington University, 1971, pp. 196-7, illustrated p. 406, fig. 117 as The Convalescent (The Morning Ride); Michael Wentworth, James Tissot, Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints, 1978, pp. 52, 54, illustrated p. 55, 6b; Michael Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 112, illustrated pl. 100; Krystyna Matyjaskiewicz, "Costumes in Tissot's Pictures," James Tissot, 1836-1902, exh. cat., London, 1985, p. 73; Mac K. Griswold, Pleasures of the Garden, Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, p. 116, 159, illustrated pp. 116-7; Jane Brown, Taste of the Rose Tree, Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 2004, p. 18

Provenance:

Thomas McLean, London (probably in circa 1898); Hugo Hanak (and sold: Parke Bernet, New York, February 17, 1944, lot 53, illustrated); Jacques Helft (acquired at the above sale); Possibly, Weitzner Gallery, New York (in circa 1955-56); Acquired in circa 1960