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JAMES (JACQUES) JOSEPH TISSOT (NANTES 1836-1906 CHENECEY-BUILLON)
Coldstream fifers, St James's Park, London
oil on canvas, unlined
15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, London, by 1982.
Anonymous sale; Skinner, Boston, 16 May 2014, lot 433, where acquired by the present owner.
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It is believed that the present painting could have been painted while the artist was living in London in the 1870s, when the Coldstream Guards were based at St John's Wood barracks, close to where Tissot lived. But it is more likely to have been executed on a visit in 1887 or 1888, as Tissot exhibited two oil studies of Coldstream Guards fifers in the 1889 Exposition des Peintres-Graveurs in Paris.
We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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