A Winter's Walk
Artist
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
(French, 1836-1902)
CultureFrench
Date1880
MediumEtching and drypoint
Dimensions22 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (56.8 x 26.4 cm)
InscribedThe following lines from John Keats' poem Fancy are printed in red-brown ink in the lower margin beginning with a large ornamental letter S: "She will bring in spite of frost/Beauties that the earth hath lost."
Signed in the plate at the lower right: JJ. Tissot/1880 with the artist's monogram stamp (Lugt 1545)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2010.8
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an impression of the second state of James Tissot's A Winter's Walk (Promenade dans la neige), executed in 1880. The print was issued in an edition of 100 on Van Gelder paper. The model for the print was the artist's mistress, Kathleen Newton, who is depicted wearing a fur cape and muff.Exhibition HistoryPia Gallo, 2010 Print Fair in New York.Published ReferencesMichael Justin Wentworth, _James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints_, (Minneapolis, 1978), catalogue #48.
Elisabeth Hase
