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| Spring Morning |
Artist:James Tissot (French, Nantes 1836–1902 Chenecey-Buillon)
Date:ca. 1875
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:22 x 16 3/4 in. (55.9 x 42.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
Accession Number:2009.359
Tissot was an early and avid aficionado of Japanese woodblock prints, from which silhouetted figure and the prominent clump of vegetation in this work are thought to derive. Until this painting reappeared at auction in 1981, its composition was known for only by means of a related drypoint. When that print was exhibited in London, in 1876, it was inexplicably singled out by a critic who described it as "intensely vulgar, but clever enough for the public it appeals to."
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