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Lot Essay
This loose yet delicate watercolour is a study for an untraced painting known only from an illustration in Willard Misfeld’s The Albums of James Tissot (Bowling Green, 1982, p.110).
Misfeld suggests that the painting depicts the artist’s niece, Jeanne Tissot (1876-1964), resting on the window sill of the sun-room in his studio at the Château de Bullion in Doubs, France. Tissot inherited the château in 1888 following his father’s death, with the present composition executed two years later in circa 1890.
Misfeld suggests that the painting depicts the artist’s niece, Jeanne Tissot (1876-1964), resting on the window sill of the sun-room in his studio at the Château de Bullion in Doubs, France. Tissot inherited the château in 1888 following his father’s death, with the present composition executed two years later in circa 1890.