Cleveland Museum of Art
Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait)
James TissotLinkedCulture matchlcp-8a70295a5687
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150083
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting depicts a woman reclining upon an upholstered couch on a summer day while light filters through a partially closed awning that provides a glimpse of a beach in the background. James Tissot’s mature works from this time were more likely to convey a mood—here of a languid summer afternoon—than a specific narrative. The model for this painting was Kathleen Newton, born Kathleen Ashburnham Kelly (1854–1882), the artist’s lover from 1876 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 28. From 1869 to 1876, under the pseudonym Coïdé , James Tissot published political cartoons in the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair , causing circulation to skyrocket.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Provenance
- 1879: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, May 31,1879, acquired form the artist). | 1879: Arrived in New York via Jos. Bulla, Paris, July 14, 1879, Femme au sofa (stock number 1645). | 1879: (Knoedler, New York, NY, October 4, 1879, sold to Henry Hilton, as Summer-days) | 1900: (American Art Galleries, New York, NY, Hilton Collection sale, February 13-16 February 1900 (lot 74), sold to Edward Brandus) | 1971-1972: (W. Postar, Boston, MA, sold to Herbert Schwarz) | 1972: Herbert Schwarz, Montreal | 1972: (Sotheby's, Los Angeles, CA, Parke-Bernet, May 22-23, 1972, lot 260, Jeune femme assise with unsustainable provenance) | 1972: (Williams & Son, London, United Kingdom, May 1972) | 1972: Clarence Frisbee, London, October 1972. | 1975: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom, July 25, 1975, lot 115) | 1975-1980: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1980-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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