The Hammock (Le hamac), 1880

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wentworth 1978, no. 46

Accession Number

1972.26.2

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

James Tissot's monogram stamp (Lugt 1545)

Provenance

(Harry Hyatt Lunn); purchased 1972 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lunn Limited

Exhibition History

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.