ID 964882
Lot 114 | JAMES JOSEPH TISSOT (FRENCH, 1836-1902)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Mélancolie
signed 'JJ Tissot' (lower left)
oil on panel
19 ½ x 14 ¾ in. (49.5 cm. x 37.5 cm.)
Tissot, J.
Painted circa 1868.
Provenance
Eliza Heighat Mitchell (1857-1926), Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1930, lot 99, as Reverie.
Wa[e?]lmann, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1967, lot 103, as Chagrin d'amour.
with Peter Claas, London, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1995, lot 113.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Burlington Magazine, London, March 1967, vol. 109, p. viii, illustrated, as Chagrin, d'amour.
W. E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot; A Bio-Critical Study, unpublished Ph.D diss., Washington University, Saint Louis, June 1971, pp. 90, 367, fig. 46, illustrated.
W. E. Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1982, p. 37, pl. I-62, illustrated.
M. Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 67.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, ed., James Tissot, exh. cat., Oxford, 1984, p. 96, under no. 19.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, James Tissot 1836-1902, exh. cat., Paris, 1985, pp. 89, 111, no. 19.
M. Bailey, Van Gogh: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man in England, exh. cat. Hampshire, 1992, pp. 28, 132, under no. 58, illustrated with the engraving.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, James Tissot: Fashion and Faith, 12 October 2019-9 February 2020, pp. 60, 84, 239-242, 244, figs. 87 and 100, no. 13, also illustrated with a full page detail, as Melancholy.
| Artist: | James Tissot (1836 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | James Tissot (1836 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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