Summer Evening
James Tissot
1881
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 22.8 × 39.5 cm (9 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 27 × 44 cm (10 11/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
259901
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...