?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES JACQUES TISSOT L'Été.
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1878. 376x208 mm; 14 3/4x8 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 100. A very good, dark and richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts.
The sitter is Kathleen "Kate" Newton (1854-1882), Tissot's Irish muse and mistress from 1871 to 1882. Tissot portrayed her as a personification of summer in this etching. Tragically, Newton contracted tuberculosis and, unable to fight the disease and witness Tissot's mounting grief, overdosed on laudanum in November 1882. Wentworth 43.
