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December 14th: A Winter’s Walk by Jacques-Joseph Tissot

A Winter's Walk by Tissot
A Winter’s Walk (Kathleen Newton in snow scene) by James Tissot, 1878. Present owner unknown. Photo via the-athenaeum.org [Public Domain].

This elegant young woman is all dressed up for an afternoon stroll through the snow. I love how her black coat and the red lining of her bonnet contrast so beautifully with the white background. The artist, Jacques-Joseph “James” Tissot (1836-1902) was a French-born painter who worked in France for part of his career but had moved to London by the time he made this painting. Tissot specialized in fashionable and highly-detailed portraits and scenes of high-society men and women; he also painted religious works.


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