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JAMES JOSEPH TISSOT (FRENCH, 1836-1902)
Mélancolie
signed 'JJ Tissot' (lower left)
oil on panel
19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (49.5 cm. x 37.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1868.
Provenance
The artist.
with The Goupil Gallery, London, acquired directly from the above, 29 April 1869.
Arbuthnot Charles Guthrie (1825-1897), London, acquired directly from the above, 7 July 1869.
Eliza Highat[t] Mitchell (1857-1926), Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1930, lot 99, as Reverie.
Wa[e?]lmann, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1967, lot 103, as Chagrin d'amour.
with Peter Claas, London, acquired at the above sale.
with Charlotte Frank London, by 1968.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1995, lot 113.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Burlington Magazine, London, March 1967, vol. 109, p. viii, illustrated, as Chagrin, d'amour.
M. Wentworth, James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902): A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. Providence, 1968, n.p., under no. 11.
W. E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot; A Bio-Critical Study, unpublished Ph.D diss., Washington University, Saint Louis, June 1971, pp. 90, 367, fig. 46, illustrated.
W. E. Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot Bowling Green, Ohio, 1982, p. 37, pl. I-62, illustrated.
M. Wentworth, James Tissot Oxford, 1984, p. 67.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, ed., James Tissot exh. cat., Oxford, 1984, p. 96, under no. 19.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, James Tissot 1836-1902, exh. cat., Paris, 1985, pp. 89, 111, no. 19.
M. Bailey, Van Gogh: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man in England, exh. cat. Hampshire, 1992, pp. 28, 132, under no. 58, illustrated with the engraving.
Apollo, London, June 1995, p. 71, illustrated.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, James Tissot Fashion and Faith, 12 October 2019-9 February 2020, pp. 60, 84, 239-242, 244, 273, 285, 330, 335, figs. 87 and 100, no. 13, under Chronology footnote 33, under Tissot's Sales Notebook footnotes 119 and 120, also illustrated with a full page detail, as Melancholy.
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Details
JAMES JOSEPH TISSOT (FRENCH, 1836-1902)
Mélancolie
signed 'JJ Tissot' (lower left)
oil on panel
19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (49.5 cm. x 37.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1868.
Provenance
The artist.
with The Goupil Gallery, London, acquired directly from the above, 29 April 1869.
Arbuthnot Charles Guthrie (1825-1897), London, acquired directly from the above, 7 July 1869.
Eliza Highat[t] Mitchell (1857-1926), Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1930, lot 99, as Reverie.
Wa[e?]lmann, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1967, lot 103, as Chagrin d'amour.
with Peter Claas, London, acquired at the above sale.
with Charlotte Frank London, by 1968.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1995, lot 113.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Burlington Magazine, London, March 1967, vol. 109, p. viii, illustrated, as Chagrin, d'amour.
M. Wentworth, James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902): A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. Providence, 1968, n.p., under no. 11.
W. E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot; A Bio-Critical Study, unpublished Ph.D diss., Washington University, Saint Louis, June 1971, pp. 90, 367, fig. 46, illustrated.
W. E. Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot Bowling Green, Ohio, 1982, p. 37, pl. I-62, illustrated.
M. Wentworth, James Tissot Oxford, 1984, p. 67.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, ed., James Tissot exh. cat., Oxford, 1984, p. 96, under no. 19.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, James Tissot 1836-1902, exh. cat., Paris, 1985, pp. 89, 111, no. 19.
M. Bailey, Van Gogh: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man in England, exh. cat. Hampshire, 1992, pp. 28, 132, under no. 58, illustrated with the engraving.
Apollo, London, June 1995, p. 71, illustrated.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, James Tissot Fashion and Faith, 12 October 2019-9 February 2020, pp. 60, 84, 239-242, 244, 273, 285, 330, 335, figs. 87 and 100, no. 13, under Chronology footnote 33, under Tissot's Sales Notebook footnotes 119 and 120, also illustrated with a full page detail, as Melancholy.
Sale room notice
Please see our website for updated provenance and literature for this work.
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