Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper bearing the van Gelder watermark, a fleur-de-lys in a crowned shield surmounting the letters 'VGZ'.
Platemark: 14 3/16 x 11 1/16
Sheet size: 22 1/8x 14 3/4 inches
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In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with full margins. After his return to Paris, Tissot was very successful in reestablishing his reputation as one of the most admired and fashionable portrait artists of the period. Many of these portraits were in pastel, as well as in oil, but this study of Berthe (who had modeled for the composition Le Dimanche Matin - Wentworth 72) is the one of only two that he translated into the medium of etching. It is in the marvelous textural richness of the surface and the translation of light that it is so successful. This etching appears to have been pulled in a smaller edition than others of the Paris period, perhaps because it needed particularly careful and sensitive inking to bring out the surface qualities in the rendering of, for example, the silk and the hat.
From the edition of unknown size.
Signed and dated in the plate lower right J.J. Tissot 1883.
A fine impression of the definitive state of this rare etching.
Bibliography: Béraldi 65; Tissot 76; Wentworth 74
