Summer Evening (Soirée d'été)

1882

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Artist, French, 1836 - 1902

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.2 × 39.7 cm (9 1/8 × 15 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 37 × 56 cm (14 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.33.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wentworth 1978, no. 56


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A, Paris); purchased 1974 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1885

  • Beraldi 47.

1978

  • Wentworth, Michael Justin. James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonne of His Prints. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left in plate: J.J. Tissot / 1881 (corresponds to execution date of painting); verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

shield (Van Gelder Zonen)

Wikidata ID

Q65571091


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