Too Early
| Too Early | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | James Tissot |
| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 71 cm × 102 cm (28 in × 40 in) |
| Location | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
Too Early is an 1873 genre painting by the French artist James Tissot.[1] It depicts a ballroom in fashionable Victorian high society with some of the guests, a father and his three daughters, having arrived embarrassingly early for the ball. On the left their hostess is giving instructions to the orchestra while housemaids peer round the corner.[2]
Tissot had moved to London in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War. He displayed this and another work Last Evening at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1873. Today the painting is in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, having been acquired in 1903.[3]
References
- ^ Misfeldt p.3
- ^ Thomson p.68
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/too-early-51135
Bibliography
- Bernstein, Susan David & Michie, Elsie B. (ed.) Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture. Routledge, 2016.
- Misfeldt, Willard E. The Albums of James Tissot. Popular Press, 1982.
- Thomson, Richard. Edgar Degas: Waiting. Getty Publications, 1995.