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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Departure, 1882

Not on View

series Title

The Prodigal Son

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.2 x 37.4 cm (12 5/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

sheet: 47 x 58.5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Wentworth 1978, no. 58, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1985.45.2

Artists / Makers

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (artist) French, 1836 - 1902

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Inscription

lower center in plate: No. I / THE DEPARTURE; lower right in plate: J.J. Tissot / 1881 (corresponds to execution date of painting)

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 65, as The Prodigal Son: The Departure.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi 49.

1886: Tissot 1886, 63.

1968: Tissot: A Retrospective Exhibition, Providence-Toronto, 1968, 75.

1978: Wentworth, Michael Justin. James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonne of His Prints. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 65.

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