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Descriptif du lot
This remarkable print in a narrow, vertical format is based on Tissot's own painting, first exhibited one year earlier, in 1879, at Grosvenor Gallery in London. The painting, now in an American private collection, suffered a damage and was cut down.
The subject anticipates other works by the artist on the subject of emigration, a theme a poignant today as at the time of the mass migrations of the second part of 19th century.
The woman, holding her child, is surrounded by a dense tangle of ropes, masts, beams and flags - a visual equivalent of her anxiety and uncertainty at the moment of departure to an unknown place.
The subject anticipates other works by the artist on the subject of emigration, a theme a poignant today as at the time of the mass migrations of the second part of 19th century.
The woman, holding her child, is surrounded by a dense tangle of ropes, masts, beams and flags - a visual equivalent of her anxiety and uncertainty at the moment of departure to an unknown place.