Details

Title

In Foreign Climes, from the Prodigal Son portfolio

Artist/Maker

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (French, 1836–1902)

Date

1881

Medium

Drypoint and aquatint on paper

Dimensions

12 1/4 × 14 11/16 inches

Credit

Purchase for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

74.36 C

Location

Currently not on view

The errant son wastes his inheritance in the pursuit of sensual pleasures in an East Asian–fantasy version of a disreputable dance hall. Although the scene as such is apt to offend modern sensibilities about ethnic and gender stereotyping, Tissot’s unusual bisected composition and multiplication of the dancers’ forms gives this print a satisfying formal strength.

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