Spring Morning
James Tissot
ca. 1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
22 x 16 3/4 in. (55.9 x 42.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
Accession Number
2009.359
Tags
GardensWomenParasols
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...