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JAMES JACQUES TISSOT L'Été.
Etching and drypoint, 1878. 376x208 mm; 14¾x8½ inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 100. A very good richly-inked impression with strong contrasts.
The sitter is Kathleen "Kate" Newton (1854-1882), Tissot's Irish muse and mistress from 1871-82. Tissot (1836-1902) portrayed her as a personification of summer in this etching. Tragically, Newton contracted tuberculosis and, unable to fight the disease and bear witness to Tissot's mounting grief, overdosed on laudanum in November 1882. Tissot reportedly sat by her coffin for four days before giving her up for burial. Wentworth 43.
