Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 296

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES JACQUES TISSOT
Portrait de Miss L . . . ou Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1876. 373x205 mm; 14 3/4x8 1/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 50. Signed in pencil, lower left, and with the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 1545, lower left recto). A richly-inked impression with strong contrasts and velvety burr. Wentworth 23.