ID 717939
Lot 424 | JAMES JACQUES JOSEPH TISSOT (1836-1902)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
The Tale
signed 'J. J. Tissot.' (lower left); inscribed and signed 'No. 1 The Tale £70/oil painting/James Tissot/17 Grove End Road/St. John's Wood/London/N.W.' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on panel
7 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄8 in. (19.1 x 28.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1878-1880
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.
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.
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.
Special Notice
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| Artist: | James Tissot (1836 - 1902) |
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| Historical era: | Victorian period |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | James Tissot (1836 - 1902) |
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| Historical era: | Victorian period |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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