Japanese Girl Bathing

Japanese Girl Bathing (French: La Japonaise au bain) is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist James Tissot, from 1864. It features a young Japanese nude woman bathing.Yamaguchi p.16 The work was part of the nineteenth century tradition of orientalism. Tissot, who never visited Japan, painted a French model in his Parisian studio draped in a kimono. However, she wears it more like a European bathrobe.Musées de Dijon (French) The theme of Japanese objects is a recurring theme in his work of this period.Marshall & Warner p.44

Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, having been acquired in 1913.Joconde (French)

See also Japonisme

References

Bibliography Marshall, Nancy Rose & Warner, Malcolm. James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love. Yale University Press, 1999. Yamaguchi, Arisa. Sartorial Japonisme and the Experience of Kimonos in Britain, 1865–1914. Taylor & Francis, 2023.