James Tissot
Tea-time
187266 x 47 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower right: J.J. Tissot / L. '72
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1998
Literature
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 114
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 107
Provenance
private collection, Rome, in 1968
with Somerville & Simpson, Ltd., London, by 1979–81, consigned in 1981 to Mathiessen Fine Art Ltd., London, sold through Mathiessen to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1981–his death 1986
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1986–98
Other works by James Tissot
Gentleman in a railway carriage
c. 1872
c. 1872
The last evening
1873
1873
July (Specimen of a portrait)
c. 1878
c. 1878
Spring
1865
1865
The shop girl
1883-85
1883-85