Study of a young man bending forward to kiss a hand, for the painting "The Departure of the Prodigal Son"
James Tissot
1862–63
Medium
Graphite, heightened with white, on pink paper
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 12 1/16 in. (24.1 x 30.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1970
Accession Number
1970.114.1
Tags
FacesHandsMenProfiles
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...