Art, literature & history
The Apparition
1885
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- mezzotint on Japan paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 49.4 x 34.4 cm (19 7/16 x 13 9/16 in.) sheet: 64 x 49.6 cm (25 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2010.25.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Tissot. The Apparition. James Jacques Joseph Tissot; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot,_The_Apparition,_1885,_NGA_150507.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Apparition — James Jacques Joseph Tissot. 1885.
Medium: mezzotint on Japan paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 49.4 x 34.4 cm (19 7/16 x 13 9/16 in.) sheet: 64 x 49.6 cm (25 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2010.25.1. Given by Art Information Volunteers and Friends in Honor of Christopher B. With.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.