In Foreign Climes

1882

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Artist, French, 1836 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Benedict

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31 x 37.5 cm (12 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 47 x 58.5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.45.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wentworth 1978, no. 59, State ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 66, as The Prodigal Son: In Foreign Climes.

Bibliography

1886

  • Tissot 1886, 63.

1968

  • Beraldi 50, Tissot: A Retrospective Exhibition, Providence-Toronto, 1968, 76.

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. 66.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: No. II / IN FOREIGN CLIMES; lower left in plate: J.J. Tissot / 1881 (corresponds to execution date of painting)

Watermarks

Van Gelder (partial) (refutes Wentworth, p.20)

Wikidata ID

Q74067491


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