A Winter's Walk

1880

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Associated Names
James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Artist, French, 1836 - 1902

The image shows a woman with curly hair wearing a hat and fur cape. She has a soft expression with gentle eyes and is holding a fur muff in her lap. The background features tree branches, and there is a border with an inscription from Keats at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Mark D. and Jeannie M. Golub Trust

  • Dimensions

    plate: 56.2 × 26.5 cm (22 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.94 × 58.42 cm (11 × 23 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.120.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wentworth 1978, no. 48 ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ivo Kirschen Fine Art, Pacific Palisades, CA); Mark Golub, purchased 1992; gift to NGA, 2021

Associated Names

Bibliography

1978

  • Wentworth, Michael Justin. James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonne of His Prints. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978, no. 48, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left, printed in red: She will bring in spite of frost, / Beauties that the earth hath lost. Keats; in plate, below image, at right: J. J. Tissot / 1880; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 125

Markings

James Tissot (L. 1545)

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