Art, literature & history
The Departure
1882
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.2 x 37.4 cm (12 5/16 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 47 x 58.5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.45.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Tissot. The Departure. 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_Departure,_1882,_NGA_65940.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 Departure — James Jacques Joseph Tissot. 1882.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.2 x 37.4 cm (12 5/16 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 47 x 58.5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.45.2. Gift of Ruth Benedict.
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.