A Walk in the Snow
1880
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black and red on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 56.1 × 26.8 cm (22 1/8 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 68.5 × 45.6 cm (27 × 18 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
220328
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The sitter is Tissot’s muse and companion, Kathleen Newton.
About the Artist
James Tissot · 1836–1902
James Tissot (1836–1902) was a French painter and printmaker who spent much of his career in England and became renowned for his meticulously detailed depictions of fashionable Victorian society. Born Jacques Joseph Tissot in Nantes, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis Lamothe and Hippolyte Flandrin and exhibited at the Salon from 1859. Tissot's early career in Paris produ...