Marguerite at the Well

Item

Creator

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)

Title

Marguerite at the Well

Date

1861

Description

Oil on panel
50 x 40 in. (c. 127 x 101.6 cm.)
Signed and dated (lower left): ‘J.J. Tissot. /1861’

Provenance

Possibly James Jacques Tissot, sold September 1864 to; [Goupil et Cie., Paris, sold December 1864 to]; William Thompson Walters (1820-1894), Baltimore. Whitman Wilcox Kenyon (1836-1926), Smithtown, New York (sale, New York, The Anderson Galleries, 14-15 December 1926, lot 68). [Newhouse Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri and New York]. Abraham Joseph Balaban (1889-1962), Chicago and New York. Walton, sold October 1958 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York (sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 April 1959, lot 125, unsold and returned September 1959), sold September 1963 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Auction Catalogues

1926 – New York, The Anderson Galleries, American & European paintings, water colors & drawings, Estate of Whitman W. Kenyon, 14-15 December 1926, lot 68, annotated with price ‘100’.
1959 – London, Sotheby’s, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Drawings and Paintings, 22 April 1959, lot 125, price list: ‘Truman’ ‘650’.

Exhibitions

Before October 1865 – New York, NY, Samuel Putnam Avery.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 47, illus.

1968 – Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, James Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836-1902, a Retrospective Exhibition, 28 February-29 March 1968, no. 4, illus. (Also traveled to Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 6 April-5 May 1968)

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 71, illus. NB: The painting appears in this Catalogue, but with the note: ‘Lent to the Toronto exhibition during Herron Museum show.’

References

Anonymous. “Notes Here and There.” The New Path (October 1865): 168. ‘The only picture of Tissot’s that has been brought to this country before the one in Mr. Knoedler’s gallery is one of “Margaret by the Fountain,” at Mr. S.P. Avery’s rooms.’
American Art Annual. Vol. XXIV. Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1928, pp.431, n.68.
Strahan, Edward [pseudonym for art critic Earl Shinn], Ed. “The Collection of William T. Walters.” The Art Treasures of America, Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie Publishers, 1880, p. 94 [‘Catalogue of Mr. W.T. Walter’s Collection’, ‘Tissot, J. – Marguerite at the Well.’]
Parry Janis, Eugenia. “Tissot Retrospective.” The Burlington Magazine Vol. 110, no. 782 (May 1968): 300, 302-303 [Marguerite at the Well discussed p. 300].

Misfeldt, Willard E. The Albums of James Tissot. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982, pp. 18, illus., 126, no. I-20.
Wentworth, Michael. James Tissot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, pp. 22, 33, pl. 4, illus.
Misfeldt, Willard E. “James Tissot and Alphonse Daudet: Friends and Collaborators.” Apollo (Feb. 1986): 110 (discusses the Marguerite series).
Wood, Christopher. Tissot: The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836-1902. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986, pp. 23-4, fig. 10, illus.
Buron, Melissa E., and Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz. James Tissot. Exh. cat. [San Francisco]: Prestel Art, 2019. San Francisco: de Young, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; [Munich]: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2019. Musées d’Orsay et de l'Orangerie, et al., pp. 30-1 (fig. 31), 254, 317n1, 330n27.
The Witt Library Courtauld Institute. London Fiche No. 6303: French School. Box 2394: Tissot, J.J.J. Marguerite at the Well. Anderson Galleries. 11 December 1926.

Status

Under research