Printemps (Spring)

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James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Printemps (Spring)
1878

About the Item

Printemps (Spring). 1878. Etching and drypoint. Tissot 30, Béraldi 27, Wentworth 34. 15 5/8 x 6 (sheet 24 x 10 1/8). Edition about 100. Slight mat stain; otherwise fine condition. A rich impression printed on cream 'Van Gelder Zonen' laid paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Signed in the plate, upper right. Housed in a gold-leaf Whistler-type frame with a silk mat (Frame size 31 1/2 x 18). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kathleen Newton, the artist's muse, wearing a ruffled muslin dress, is framed by flowering apple blossoms and rhododendrons. Wentworth writes: "In the late 1870's, Tissot experimented with the tall, narrow format of the Japanese hashira-e prints designed for display on the pillars of houses, and in works like Printemps and Au bord de la mer (No. 47), he comes close to the extreme attentuation of his models...." (page 154). Tissot learned the rudiments of printmaking in the 1860s, greatly influenced by Whistler, whom he met in 1859, as well as Degas, Legros and Seymour Haden. Tissot's most productive period as an etcher was during his English period (1871-1882) when he was settled in London as a consequence of being branded a communard after the Franco-Prussian War. The subject-matter of Tissot's eighty-eight etchings often relates closely to that of his paintings, chronicling the elegant, leisured life of his epoch. Unlike the work of Whistler and Degas, for example, Tissot's etchings were always intended as accurate and finished transcriptions of his paintings rather than as experimental works in an alternative medium. As Michael Justin Wentworth, author of the catalogue raisonne of Tissot's prints, has written: "Tissot was conservative and always kept the finish expected at the Salon and the Academy…But in the iconography and the troubled psychology of his pictures he comes into his own". After the death of Tissot's London mistress and muse, Mrs Newton, the artist ceased to etch and returned to France.

Creator:
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902, French)
Creation Year:
1878
Dimensions:
Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Drypoint,Etching
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Storrs, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3352919823