Reflections of the Past

Wonderful artwork of James Tissot. He did some glorious images of women in social situations. (October 15, 1836 - August 8, 1902)

Sometime in the 1870s Tissot met a divorcee, Mrs. Kathleen Newton, who became his companion and the model for many of his paintings. Mrs. Newton moved into Tissot's household in 1876 and lived with him until her suicide in the late stages of consumption in 1882 at the age of 28.