Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait)
1878
James Tissot
James Tissot (French, 1836–1902)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait), 1878. James Tissot (French, 1836–1902). Oil on fabric; framed: 112.1 x 85.4 x 6.4 cm (44 1/8 x 33 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 87.5 x 61 cm (34 7/16 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.288 From 1869 to 1876, under the pseudonym Coïdé, Tissot published political cartoons in the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair, causing circulation to skyrocket.
- Maker/Artist
- Tissot, James
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 112.1 x 85.4 x 6.4 cm (44 1/8 x 33 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 87.5 x 61 cm (34 7/16 x 24 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed upper left in window sash: J. J. Tissot
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1980.288
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1980, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, James Tissot. Victorian Life/Modern Love, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, <em>Summer Exhibition</em>. Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1878)., Possibly Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (according to Noah L. Butkin, in letter to The Cleveland Museum of Art; could not be verified).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 220 19th Century European
Have a concern, a correction, or something to add?
