Mar 05, 2009 - Sale 2172

Sale 2172 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JAMES JACQUES TISSOT
Promenade dans la Neige.

Etching and drypoint, 1880. 566x268 mm; 22 1/4x10 5/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. First state (of 3), before the verse by Keats printed in red in the lower margin. Signed in pencil, lower left, and with the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 1545, lower right recto). Ex-collection Michael Wentworth, author of the catalogue raisonné of Tissot's prints, his sale Sotheby's, London, March 1998, lot 300. A brilliant, luminous and richly-inked impression of this large, important print. Wentworth 48.