Deuxieme frontispice (Assise sur le globe)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Description
Subject Matter:
This image is one of three rejected frontispieces that Tissot made for his first portfolio of ten etchings. The allegorical nude female in the guise of Fortune, who sits atop a globe, was a common motif during the Renaissance, especially in the printed work of Northern artists like Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Physical Description:
A nude woman sits on a large sphere and looks down, to her right. She holds a blank tablet in her left hand (against which she also leans her head), and a sprig of laurel leaves in her right hand, which rests behind her right thigh. Laurel leaves also decorate her hair. A ribbon crosses her chest and right hip. The space behind the woman and the sphere are left blank.
Signed in the image, lower left corner, in the plate: "J.J. Tissot / 1875"
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