LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

7 1?2 x 11 1?8 in. (19.1 x 28.1 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Birmingham, Autumn Exhibition of the Royal Society of Artists, 1880, no. 256. Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures: The Twelfth, 1882, no. 668.

Literature:

‘Royal Society of Artists/Autumn Exhibition,’ in The Birmingham Daily Post, 7 September 1880, p. 5. C. Wood, Tissot, London, 1986, no. 116, pp. 113 & 116 (illustrated p. 166; titled 'Reading a Story' and dated 'circa 1878-1879'.) K. Matyjaszkiewicz, ‘Creating and Meeting Demand: James Tissot’s London Replicas,’ in Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market, New York & London, 2020, p. 248.

Provenance:

Burton Cumming, Milwaukee & Westport, by 1949. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 1983, lot 66. Sayn-Wittgenstein Fine Art, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 1983.