James Jacques Joseph Tissot
A Tryst at a Riverside Café
Found at
Bonhams,
London
19th Century and British Impressionist Art, Lot 45
25. Sept - 25. Sept 2024
19th Century and British Impressionist Art, Lot 45
25. Sept - 25. Sept 2024
Estimate: 120.000 - 180.000 GBP
Price realised: 121.050 GBP
Price realised: 121.050 GBP
Description
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)
A Tryst at a Riverside Café
signed 'J.J Tissot' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40.6 x 53.7cm (16 x 21 1/8in).
Perhaps sold by Tissot in autumn/winter 1869 as La tête à tête to Paris art dealer Adolphe Goupil for 2,300 francs, Goupil recording purchase as La Conversation and selling the painting to New York art dealer Michael Knoedler; or perhaps as Le Cabaret ('The Tavern') to Paris art dealer Frederic Reitlinger for 2,600 francs (both Goupil and Reitlinger purchases recorded in Tissot's sales notebook but may be different, currently untraced paintings). | Ronald Lewis by 1984, having been in his family 'for at least 50 years'. | Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1989, lot 108. | Private collection, USA.
A Tryst at a Riverside Café
signed 'J.J Tissot' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40.6 x 53.7cm (16 x 21 1/8in).
Perhaps sold by Tissot in autumn/winter 1869 as La tête à tête to Paris art dealer Adolphe Goupil for 2,300 francs, Goupil recording purchase as La Conversation and selling the painting to New York art dealer Michael Knoedler; or perhaps as Le Cabaret ('The Tavern') to Paris art dealer Frederic Reitlinger for 2,600 francs (both Goupil and Reitlinger purchases recorded in Tissot's sales notebook but may be different, currently untraced paintings). | Ronald Lewis by 1984, having been in his family 'for at least 50 years'. | Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1989, lot 108. | Private collection, USA.
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