

1542
4
by
James Tissot
Holyday
1876
This painting is set in the artist’s garden in the wealthy north London suburb of St John’s Wood. It features its distinctive cast-iron colonnade enclosing a large ornamental fishpond. St John’s Wood was considered a rather louche area and this picture of young people flirting, unnoticed by their sleeping chaperone, was considered by some to be rather vulgar. The men are wearing the caps of I Zingari, an elite amateur cricket club.James Tissot had fled to London in 1870 after the fall of the Paris Commune, and stayed until 1882. [source]
- Size:
- 762 x 994 x 20 mm
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Courtesy of Tate Britain (Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported))
- For more:
- http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tissot-holyday-n04413
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