Croquet
James Tissot French
Not on view
In this print—based on a painting of the same title in the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario—Tissot stages a scene of leisurely recreation in his London garden, identifiable by the distinctive colonnade surrounding the fountain in the background. Confronting the viewer, a girl stands on a bright lawn among croquet stakes and balls, balancing a mallet behind her back. The game had arrived in England from France in about 1860. The figure kneeling in the background appears to be the same model in a different pose.
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