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Attributed to James Jacques Joseph Tissot
(French, 1836-1902)
Coldstream Fifer Boys in Green Park
Unsigned, inscribed “J. Tissot” on the
stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 51.0 cm),
framed.
Condition: Stable craquelure, minor paint
losses at corners and at u.r. edge, stretcher
bar marks, surface grime.
Provenance: Purchased by the current owner
from an estate in Surrey, England, in the early
1980s.
N.B. There is little scholarly information
on James Tissot after he left London and
returned to Paris in 1882. Except for the
1885-6 series of the Women of Paris, he
was thought to have focused on religious
works. However, in L’Artiste, 1889, reviewer
F. Courboin wrote, “M. Tissot a envoyé des
aquarelles très serrées et deux jolies études
d’après le Fifres de Coldstream Guards.”^1 This
brief reference indicates that The Coldstream
Guards had indeed been a subject for Tissot
at some point, and he was exhibiting them in
Paris in the late 1880s. It is not clear, however,
if the works were done at that period or
painted earlier when the artist lived in England.- F. Courboin, “Les Expositions: Le Peintres-Graveurs,” L’Artiste, 1889,
Vol. I, p. 127.
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