The Widower
James Tissot
1877
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 35.2 × 22.8 cm (13 7/8 × 9 in.); Sheet: 46.6 × 33.3 cm (18 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136132
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...