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James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (Nantes 1836-1902 Doubs)
A woman holding pistol (recto); A troubadour (?), with a subsidiary study of his head (verso)

graphite (recto and verso)
1634 x 1058 in. (42.7 x 27 cm)

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 March 1992, lot 325 (where bought by the present owner).
Literature
M. Wentworth, Tissot, Oxford, 1984, p. 111.
Exhibited
London, Barbican Art Gallery, James Tissot, 1984, no. 24.
Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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This is a study for Tissot's first picture painted in England, The crack shot (tradidtionally known as At the Rifle Range) from 1869, now at Wimpole Hall.

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