An Uninteresting Story, 1878

  • James Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on thin off-white laid paper

  • Plate: 12 3/8 × 8 inches (31.4 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
  • 27 × 22 inches (68.6 × 55.9 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John and Mary Bilello

2015.276

Signed and dated, in plate, upper right: J.J. Tissot 1878

Inscribed, in pencil in different hands, lower left, verso: G22015 Inscribed, lower left center, verso: L'HISTOIRE ENNUYEUSE Inscribed, lower right: 011877 [underscored]

2015-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

James Joseph Tissot, An Uninteresting Story, 1878, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on thin off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John and Mary Bilello, 2015.276.