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by
James Tissot
Women of Paris: The Circus Lover
1885
This work belongs to a series called La Femme à Paris (Women of Paris), eighteen large paintings that depict women of different social classes encountered as if by chance at various occupations and amusements. Here, the woman engages the viewer as a participant in the action by her direct glance out of the picture. The event is a “high-life circus,” in which the amateur performers were members of the aristocracy. [Read more...]
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Signed lower left: J. J. Tissot
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Signed lower left: J. J. Tissot
- Size:
- 147.3 x 101.6 cm (58 x 40 in.)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Public Domain, Courtesy of the MFA Boston
- For more:
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/women-of-paris-the-ci…
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