Cleveland Museum of Art

The Hammock

James Tissot

Date

1880

Medium

etching and drypoint on antique laid paper

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This etching depicts Kathleen Newton, a British divorcee who frequently modeled for the French artist James Tissot during the 1870s, while he lived in London. Based on a painting of the previous year, the print shows Newton reclining on a tasseled hammock in the artist’s own garden, engrossed in a novel. Tissot reinterpreted many of his paintings as etchings, inspired by a revived interest in the medium. The inscription on this print, in Tissot’s handwriting, indicated that work on his printing plate was complete.

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