Blanton Museum of Art - Le Banc de jardin [The Garden Bench]

Le Banc de jardin [The Garden Bench]

1883
19th century
45.7 cm x 60.5 cm (18 in. x 23 13/16 in.)

James-Jacques Tissot (Nantes, 1836 - 1902, Château de Buillon, Doubs) Primary

Object Type: print

Artist Nationality: Europe, French

Medium and Support: Mezzotint

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1986

Accession Number: 1986.6

Kathleen Newton was Tissot's mistress from at least 1876 until her death at age twenty-eight in 1882. Executed shortly afterward, this is the most elaborate of his many prints involving her likeness. Unusually, it features her young son, Cecil George, whom Tissot is thought to have fathered.

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Le Banc de jardin [The Garden Bench]