The Widower

1877

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and drypoint; published state
Dimensions: Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 in. (35.2 × 22.8 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 1/16 in. (44.2 × 30.6 cm)
Collection no.: 2019.282.9
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Tissot. The Widower. James Tissot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. 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 Widower — James Tissot. 1877.

Medium: Etching and drypoint; published state. Dimensions: Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 in. (35.2 × 22.8 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 1/16 in. (44.2 × 30.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019.

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.

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