# Bad News \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TISSOT, James](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

This is one of a series of pictures inspired by eighteenth-century British art, which rearrange costumed models and props before a landscape viewed through a bay window.

## Related artworks

- [A Widow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/a-widow-r9e09d92f1d7c17>)
- [Bad News \(The Parting\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/bad-news-the-parting-ra4d3a95e7d9e46>)
- [Berthe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/berthe-r1cba80975a8206>)
- [Kathleen Newton in the Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/kathleen-newton-in-the-garden-r1261c87a691896>)
- [Portrait of Miss L.L. or Girl in a Red Jacket](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/portrait-of-miss-ll-or-girl-in-a-red-jacket-r1a8b0cdefe7353>)
- [Tea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/tea-rc400e1b27d12f7>)
- [The Newspaper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/the-newspaper-r5022327167ac87>)
- [The Painters and their Wives](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/the-painters-and-their-wives-r3f668f145d7ef7>)
- [The Return from the Boating Trip](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/the-return-from-the-boating-trip-r0c1b6f27a030b5>)
- [Young Lady in a Boat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tissot-james-re71afa40f896d1/young-lady-in-a-boat-raba866b26c75d3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)