Château de Buillon

Details

JAMES JACQUES JOSEPH TISSOT (FRENCH, 1836-1902)
Château de Buillon
gouache and oil on card
20 ½ x 14 ¼ in. (52 x 36.2 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
Jeanne Tissot (d. 1964), Besançon, his niece, by descent, 1902.
Her estate sale; Besançon, Château de Buillon, 8-9 November 1964.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1982, lot 272.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 June 1989, lot 136.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, The Barbican Art Gallery, James Tissot, 15 November 1984 - 20 January 1985; also Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, 1 February-16 March 1985; Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 5 April-30 June 1985, p. 244, no. 168.

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Lot Essay

Following his father's death in 1888, Tissot inherited the Château de Buillon in Doubs, France. In his later years, Tissot would go on to make a wide range of alterations to the estate, using the designs of the English architect John Brydon, who had designed the studio at his Grove End Road house, London, in 1873 (see W. E. Misfeldt, 'James Tissot's Abbaye de Buillon', Apollo, January 1984, pp. 24-9). The Château featured several times in the architectural magazine The Builder (15 June 1895, pp. 452-453, illustrated; 1 May 1897, p. 390, illustrated; 1 June 1901, p. 540).
We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

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