Ramsgate
James Tissot
1876
Medium
Drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11 15/16 x 16 3/4 in. (30.3 x 42.5 cm) plate: 10 1/4 x 14 3/16 in. (26 x 36 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor, 1981
Accession Number
1981.1153.3
Tags
InteriorsMenWomenShips
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...