Title: The Reception (A Woman of Ambition) 

Artist: James Tissot

• French painter and illustrator, moved to London in 1871

• became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life

• real interest in femininity and the accessories that suggest it

Art movement: 1885, Impressionism-Expressionism

• characterized by visible brushstrokes, capturing a moment 

This piece is part of a series,

 entitled “La femme à Paris”, made from 1883 to 1885.