The potent combination of sex and death appears again and again in a small exhibition of Tissot’s prints and paintings ...

Kathleen Newton was an Irishwoman 18 years ... contained to armchairs and sick beds. The Hammock, James Tissot, 1880, etching and drypoint on laid paper Art Gallery of Ontario.

Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts ... happened to live nearby. Kathleen Newton was an Irishwoman 18 years Tissot’s junior and ...