id: 150083 accession number: 1980.288 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.288 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:46.024000 Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait), 1878. James Tissot (French, 1836–1902). Oil on fabric; framed: 112.1 x 85.4 x 6.4 cm (44 1/8 x 33 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 87.5 x 61 cm (34 7/16 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.288 title: Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1878 creation date earliest: 1878 creation date latest: 1878 current location: 220 19th Century European creditline: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * James Tissot (French, 1836–1902) - artist Son of a fabric merchant, Tissot left for Paris in 1856 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts under Louis Lamothe (1822-1869) and Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864). Just like Alma Tadema (q.v.), Tissot, in his early career, was influenced by Belgian history painter Henry Leys (1815-1869), which resulted in such paintings as those illustrating Goethe's Faust (1808-32). In Paris he became close friends with J. A. M. Whistler (1834-1903), Degas (q.v.), and later Morisot (q.v.) and Manet (q.v.). Tissot made his debut at the Salon of 1859, and in 1864 he showed his first works depicting scenes of modern life. He became quite successful, and by 1865 his financial troubles had disappeared. His fame had already spread to the other side of the Channel, and in 1864 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London. Intrigued by Japanese art, Tissot amassed a renowned collection and painted some fashionable japonaiseries. In 1870 he fought in the Franco-Prussian War and joined the Paris Commune. He left the war-ravaged city in 1871 for London, where his success continued. Degas asked him to participate in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874, but he declined. Around 1875 he met Kathleen Newton, who became his companion until her death at age twenty-eight. Overcome with grief, he moved back to Paris. There he had a large solo exhibition in 1883 at the Palais de l'Industrie, showing paintings, works on paper, and enamels. Two years later he exhibited Quinze tableaux sur la femme à Paris, depicting the life of the modern urban woman. From that point on, Tissot became deeply involved with spiritualism and religion. He departed completely from secular subjects and began illustrating the life of Christ. --- measurements: Framed: 112.1 x 85.4 x 6.4 cm (44 1/8 x 33 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 87.5 x 61 cm (34 7/16 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper left in window sash: J. J. Tissot translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: James Tissot. Victorian Life/Modern Love opening date: 1999-09-22T00:00:00 James Tissot. Victorian Life/Modern Love. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (September 22-November 28, 1999); Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada (December 15, 1999-March 12, 2000); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (March 24-July 2, 2000). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity opening date: 2012-09-25T00:00:00 Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (September 25, 2012-January 12, 2013); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 19-May 27, 2013); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (June 29-September 29, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Summer Exhibition. Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1878).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Possibly Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (according to Noah L. Butkin, in letter to The Cleveland Museum of Art; could not be verified).', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, May 31,1879, acquired form the artist). date: 1879 footnotes: citations: Arrived in New York via Jos. Bulla, Paris, July 14, 1879, Femme au sofa (stock number 1645). date: 1879 footnotes: citations: (Knoedler, New York, NY, October 4, 1879, sold to Henry Hilton, as Summer-days) date: 1879 footnotes: citations: (American Art Galleries, New York, NY, Hilton Collection sale, February 13-16 February 1900 (lot 74), sold to Edward Brandus) date: 1900 footnotes: citations: (W. Postar, Boston, MA, sold to Herbert Schwarz) date: 1971-1972 footnotes: citations: Herbert Schwarz, Montreal date: 1972 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, Los Angeles, CA, Parke-Bernet, May 22-23, 1972, lot 260, Jeune femme assise with unsustainable provenance) date: 1972 footnotes: citations: (Williams & Son, London, United Kingdom, May 1972) date: 1972 footnotes: citations: Clarence Frisbee, London, October 1972. date: 1972 footnotes: citations: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom, July 25, 1975, lot 115) date: 1975 footnotes: citations: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1975-1980 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1980- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Grosvenor Gallery. Second Notice." The Magazine of Art 1 (1878): 81-82. page number: Mentioned: P. 82 url: Laver, James. "Vulgar Society"; The Romantic Career of James Tissot, 1836-1902. London, United Kingdom: Constable & co., ltd, 1936. page number: Reproduced: p. 69 url: "Salerooms." The Connoisseur 190 (September 1975): 68-69. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68 url: Tissot, James Jacques Joseph. “Seaside.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 102 (November 1975): 392 page number: Reproduced: P. 392 url: Wentworth, Michael. James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Minneapolis, Minn. : Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978. page number: Reproduced: P. 160 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1980." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXVIII no. 6 (June, 1981): 163-219. page number: Reproduced: p. 183; Mentioned: p. 182, p. 214, no. 117 url: Wentworth, Michael. James Tissot. Oxford, [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1984. page number: Mentioned: p. 131, 142-145, 156, 202; reproduced: pl. 132 url: Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz,ed. James Tissot. Oxford: Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery, 1984. page number: Mentioned: P. 60-61, 119 url: Wood, Christopher. Tissot: The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836-1902. London, United Kingdom : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. page number: Mentioned: p. 101; Reproduced: p. 105, fig. 103 url: Ash, Russell.James Tissot. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 30 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: P. 238 url: D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 211 url: Marshall, Nancy Rose, and Malcolm Warner. James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love. New Haven, CT: American Federation of Arts, Yale University Press, 1999. page number: Reproduced: no. 52; Mentioned: p. 124-125 url: Jiminez, Jill Berk, and Joanna Banham. Dictionary of Artists' Models. London, United Kingdom: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 399 url: Groom, Gloria Lynn. Impressionism, Fashion, & Modernity. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 157, no. 39 url: Bougault, Valerie. "L'Impressionisme en Habits." Connaissance des Arts (October 2012): 48-57. page number: Reproduced: P. 51 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.288/1980.288_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.288/1980.288_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.288/1980.288_full.tif