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JAMES JACQUES TISSOT En plein soleil.
Etching and drypoint, 1881. 200x297 mm; 7 7/8x11 3/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. With the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 1545, lower left recto). A brilliant, richly-inked impression.
Whistler and Tissot (1836-1902) met early on, in Paris during the late 1850s, both aspiring artists copying paintings by the masters at the Louvre. Tissot became a caricaturist with Vanity Fair in 1869, a position that likely led to his moving to London the same year. He purportedly learned etching from Haden in London and was soon producing prints of the Thames along with intimate, family scenes like this, that are indebted to Whistler in subject matter and stylistically to the 'Thames Set' of the late 1850s/early 1860s.
Though while Whistler portrayed the working class along the Thames, Tissot focused on the upper class. He became a sought after portrait painter in London, on par with John Singer Sargent, Paul César Helleu and Giovanni Boldini. He and Whistler were close through the 1870s, but he did not appear in defense at the Ruskin libel trial despite Whistler having sought his support. Wentworth 54.
