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L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman)

1883–85

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The story

Tissot painted this woman working her way into fashionable Paris society for La Femme à Paris, a series of fifteen large canvases made between 1883 and 1885. A London exhibition catalogue of 1886 called her pink gown a marvel of the dressmaker's art.

Source, Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Object details

Title: L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman)
Artist: James Tissot
Date: 1883–85
Culture: French
Medium
Object type: Other
Collection: Buffalo AKG Art Museum (1909:10)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0843
Original image: 2072 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

James Tissot. L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman). 1883–85. Buffalo AKG Art Museum (1909:10). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0843/