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Seaside Oil on fabric, 87.5 x 61 cm, by James Tissot (1836–1902) Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| On a languid summer afternoon, a woman reclines on a couch as filtered light reveals the beach behind her. Her style is sumptuous, sensuous, and arrestingly modern for its era; she wears a voluminous white dress trimmed with yellow ribbons and ruffles, its layered fabric cascading in soft folds that echo the languor of the scene. Mrs Kathleen Newton was Tissot’s mistress until her death at 28. |
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