Detail of En Plein Soleil by Tissot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Artist: James Tissot (French, 1836–1902)

Title: En plein soleil

Date: ca. 1881

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (24.8 x 35.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2006

Accession Number: 2006.278

On View

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This group portrait includes the artist's companion, Kathleen Newton (1854–1882), at left; her children, Cecil George Newton (1876–1941) and Muriel Mary Violet Newton (1871–1933); and two unidentified figures. The setting appears to be Tissot's garden in St. John's Wood, London.

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