| An Interesting Story | |
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| Artist | James Tissot |
| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 59.7 cm× 76.6 cm(23.5 in× 30.2 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
An Interesting Story is an 1872 genre painting by the French artist James Tissot. It depicts a scene in an English riverside tavern during the eighteenth century. [1] The title is intended to be ironic, as a bored fashionably-dressed woman stares into the distance rather than at the army officer with the map on front of him, regaling them with his exploits. The response of the other young woman is more ambiguous. Tissot created another painting of a similar scene more accurately titled The Tedious Story. [2]
Tissot had moved to Britain following the Franco-Prussian War.The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 at Burlington House in London. Today the work is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, having been acquired in 1938. [3]
