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.
We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.