Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

232 c JAMES JACQUES TISSOT La Tamise . Drypoint and etching on cream laid paper, 1876. 225x360 mm; 9 3 / 4 x14 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 100. Signed in pencil, lower right, and with the artist’s red ink stamp (Lugt 1545, lower left recto). A superb, richly-inked impression.Wentworth 20. [5,000/8,000] 233 c JAMES JACQUES TISSOT L’Été . Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1878. 376x208 mm; 14 3 / 4 x8 3 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 100. A superb, dark and early impression with strong contrasts. The sitter is Kathleen “Kate” Newton (1854- 1882), Tissot’s Irish muse and mistress from 1871 to 1882. Tissot portrayed her as a per­ sonification of summer in this etching. Tragically, Newton contracted tuberculosis and, unable to fight the disease and witness Tissot’s mounting grief, overdosed on lauda­ num in November 1882. Tissot reportedly sat by her coffin for four days before giving her up for burial. Wentworth 43. [2,000/3,000] 232 233