Art, literature & history
The Apparition
ca. 1885
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Mezzotint on wove paper; second state of two
- Dimensions
- sheet: 21 3/16 x 15 13/16 in. (53.8 x 40.2 cm) plate: 19 13/16 x 13 15/16 in. (50.4 x 35.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 64.584.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Tissot. The Apparition. James Tissot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Apparition — James Tissot. ca. 1885.
Medium: Mezzotint on wove paper; second state of two. Dimensions: sheet: 21 3/16 x 15 13/16 in. (53.8 x 40.2 cm) plate: 19 13/16 x 13 15/16 in. (50.4 x 35.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.