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.
Alexandra Kiely, aka A Scholarly Skater, is an art historian based in the northeastern United States. She loves wandering down the dark and dusty corners of art history and wholeheartedly believes in visual art's ability to enrich every person's life.
Her favorite periods of art history are 19th-century American painting and medieval European art and architecture. When she not looking at, reading about, writing about, or teaching art, she's probably ice dancing or reading.
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