European & British Paintings Day Auction

European & British Paintings Day Auction

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Property from an Important Private Collection

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Hammock

Auction Closed

December 7, 01:32 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection


James Jacques Joseph Tissot

French

1836 - 1902

The Hammock


signed J.J. Tissot lower left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 127 by 86cm., 50 by 34in.

Framed: 142 by 102cm., 56 by 40in.

According to Tissot’s sales notebook, purchased in 1881 for £160 by Richard Donkin, M.P. (1836 – 1919), of Albermarle, Wimbledon Common

Sale, Kende Galleries of Gimbel Brothers at Jay Gould Mansion New York, 19 February 1943, lot 61

Private collection, East Coast of America

Sale, Christie’s London, 28 November 2001, lot 21

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Athenaeum, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', no. 2689, 10 May 1879, pp. 607-608

Times, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', 2 May 1879, p. 3

Punch, 'Grosvenor Gallery Review', 21 June 1879, pp. 285-87

Spectator, 'Grosvenor Gallery Review', 1879

James Tissot, The Complete Collection of the Artist's Works, Reproduced in a Series of Photographs, Vol. 3, 1876-82, illustrated

Michael Wentworth, James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints, Minneapolis, 1978, no. 46

Willard Misfeldt, The Albums of James Tissot, Bowling Green, 1982, p. 54, fig. III-5

Michael Wentworth, James Tissot, Oxford, 1984, pp. 145, 147, 203

Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz, (ed.), James Tissot, London, 1984, p. 124, illustrated fig. 57

Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, James Tissot, exh. cat., 1985, p. 211, illustrated fig. 72

Christopher Wood, Tissot, London, 1986, pp. 107, 113

Melissa E. Buron and Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz (with other contributors), James Tissot, exh. cat. for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2019, pp. 257-8, 279, illustrated fig. 118

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1879, no. 99

Manchester, Royal Institution, September 1879, no. 8

Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 19th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1880, no. 225

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Center for British Art, James Tissot, Victorian Life Modern Love, 1999, ex. catalogue