The Hammock (Le hamac)

1880

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Artist, French, 1836 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.8 x 18.4 cm (10 15/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1972.26.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wentworth 1978, no. 46

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Harry Hyatt Lunn); purchased 1972 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Hammock.

Bibliography

1885

  • Beraldi 37.

1978

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

Inscriptions

recto: lower left in plate: J.J. Tissot / 1880; lower right in graphite: J.J. Tissot; at upper right, in faded brown ink: 75; at bottom right, in graphite: a17043; at lower right, in graphite: A-17043; verso: at lower right, in graphite: B-26.083

Markings

James Tissot's monogram stamp (Lugt 1545)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65571087

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