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JAMES JACQUES JOSEPH TISSOT (FRENCH, 1836-1902)
Le départ du fiancé
signed 'J J Tissot' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink and pencil on paper
6 x 1118 in. (15.2 x 28.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1862-1866
Provenance
The artist.
‘fils Goupil,’ (per the artist's sale's ledger) acquired directly from the above, 1866.
P. L. Everard, London.
His sale; Christie’s, London, 10 July 1880, lot 131, as Departure from the Village.
Mr. Hollandson, Jr., acquired at the above sale.
with The Fine Art Society, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 April 1989, lot 560, as Sketch for 'Le départ du fiancé'.
David M. Daniels (1927-2002) and Stevan Beck Baloga (1956-2002), New York.
Their estate sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 2002, lot 74, as Sketch for 'Le départ du fiancé'.
Literature
‘Picture Sale,’ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 12 July 1880, p. 3.
E. Strahan, Études in Modern French Art, New York, 1882,p. 51, photogravure of oil reproduced between pp. 48-49.
K. Matyjaszkiewicz, ‘Tissot’s Sales Notebook,’ in James Tissot, exh. cat., San Francisco, 2019, pp. 272, 335 (footnotes 85-86), as départ du fiancé (aquarelle).
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This is an autograph replica in watercolor of the oil painting exhibited by Tissot at the 1863 Paris Salon. The oil was bought from Tissot in 1865 by art dealer Alphonse Goupil, who arranged for it to be photographed and published. His son bought, and probably commissioned, this watercolor replica. Although the figures wear ‘medieval’ costume, as used by Tissot in work inspired by Goethe’s Faust and in particular the tragic heroine Marguerite, the subject here is religious exile: Protestants exiled from Roman Catholic lands, or Catholics swept out by Reformation. Goupil’s photogravure of the oil was published in the USA with the title The Exiles; in France the photograph was published as Dernière promenade.
We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz for her assistance with cataloguing this work and for contributing this note.

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