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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Paintings

Adam and Eve Driven from Paradise

The Ark Passes Over the Jordan

Rebecca Meets Isaac by the Way

On the Thames. A Heron

A Convalescent

A Dandy

A Declaration of Love

A Fete Day at Brighton

A Girl in an Armchair

A la Fenetre

A Lady in a Black and White Dress

A Woman in an Elegant Interior

A Woman of Ambition

Algeron Moses Marsden

Beating the Retreat in the Tuilleries Gardens

Behold He Standeth behind Our Wall

Berthe

Boarding the Yacht

By the Thames at Richmond

Childrens Party

Chrysanthemums

Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Croquet

In the Church

In the Greenhouse

Second Frontispiece Sitting on the Globe

During the Service (Martin Luther's Doubts)

Emigrants

In full sun

Study

Faust and Marguerite in the Garden

Woman at the Window

Foreign Visitors at The Louvre

Gentleman in a Railway Carriage

Going to Business

Goodbye on the Mersey

Hagar and the Angel in the Desert

Healing of the Lepers at Capernaum

Hide and Seek

Holiday ( The Picnic)

Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him

Japanese in Bath

Jesus at Bethany

Jesus Goes Up Alone onto a Mountain to Pray

Jesus Ministered to by Angels

Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue

Jeune Femme A L Eventail

Journey of the Magi

Judas Hangs Himself

July - Specimen of a Portrait

Kathleen Newton at the Piano

Kathleen Newton in an Armchair

The Fireplace

Prehistoric Woman

La Soeur Ainee

The Comedian

Foyer of the Comedie Francaise during the Siege of Paris

The Hammock

The Journal

The Portico of the National Gallery in London

The first man I saw

The Secret Rendez Vous

At Marguerite Rempart

Marguerite in Church

Mary Magdalene`s Box of Very Precious Ointment

Mary Magdelane before Her Conversion

Mavourneen ( Portrait of Kathleen Newton)

Michal Despises David

Mrs Newton with a Parasol

October

On The River

On the Thames ( Return from Henley)

On the Thames, a Heron

Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles

Orphan

Entry of the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem

Portrait of Miss Lloye

Portrait of the Pilgrim

Portsmouth Dockyard ( How Happy I Could be with Either)

Ruins (Voices Within)

The Ball on Shipboard

The Ball

The Bunch of Lilacs

The Captain and the Mate

The Captain's Daughter (Study)

The Captain's Daughter

The Circle of the Rue Royale

The Confidence ( The Admission)

The Creation

The Daughter of Herodias Dancing

The Departure Platform Victoria Station

The Descent from the Cross

The Dreamer

The Fan

The Farewell

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta

The Garden Bench

The Grotto of the Agony

The Hidden Treasure

The Hull of a Battle Ship

The Ladies of the Cars

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

The Plague of Locusts

The Political Lady

The Princesse De Broglie

The Prodigal Son in Foreign Climes

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life - the Return

The Prodigal Son, the Departure

The Prodigal Son, the Fatted Calf

The Prophet Zechariah

The Repentant Magdalene

The Return from the Boating Trip

The Return of the Prodigal Son

The Sermon of the Beatitudes

The Shop Girl

The Sojourn in Egypt

The Sporting Ladies ( The Amateur Circus)

The Warrior's Daughter

The Widower

The Woman of Fashion

The Youth of Jesus

The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern Greenwich London

Too Early

Trafalgar Tavern Greenwich

Triumph of the Will the Challenge

Two Sisters. Portrait

Type of Beauty ( Kathleen Newton)

Unaccepted

Uncle Fred

A Convalescent

Vicomtesse de Montmorand

Waiting for the Ferry

Waiting

What Our Savior Saw from the Cross

Without a Dowry (also known as Sunday in the Luxembourg Gardens)

Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects

Young Lady Holding Japanese Objects

Young Lady in a Boat

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects

Faust and Marguerite in the Garden

The Artist's Ladies

The Garden Bench

Triumph Of The Will: The Challenge

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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902) was a French painter.

Biography

Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three. In 1861 he showed The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite, which was purchased by the state for the Luxembourg Gallery. His first characteristic period made him a painter of the charms of women. Demi-mondaine would be more accurate as a description of the series of studies which he called La Femme a Paris.

Career

He fought in the Franco-Prussian War and, falling under suspicion as a Communard, left Paris for London. Here he studied etching with Sir Seymour Haden, drew caricatures for Vanity Fair, and painted portraits as well as genre subjects.

Sometime in the 1870s Tissot met an Irish divorcee, Mrs. Kathleen Newton, who became his companion and the model for many of his paintings. Mrs. Newton moved into Tissot's household in 1876 and lived with him until her suicide in the late stages of consumption in 1882 at the age of 28.[1]

It was many years before he turned to the chief labor of his career, the production of a series of 700 watercolor drawings to illustrate the life of Christ and the Old Testament. He disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after the death of Kathleen Newton, and went to Palestine. In 1896 the series of 350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in Paris, and the following year found them on show in London. They were then published by the firm of Lemercier in Paris, who had paid him 1,100,000 francs for them. (Over 500 related drawings, watercolors and oils are now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.)

After this he turned to the scenes of the Old Testament, upon which he was still engaged at the abbey of Buillon, in the department of Doubs, France, when he died.

Style

The merits of Tissot's Bible illustrations lay rather in the care with which he studied the details of scenery than in any quality of religious emotion. He seemed to aim, above all, at accuracy, and, in his figures, at a vivid realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types.
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References

   1. ^ "Victorian Art in Britain". Jacques Tissot. http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/biog/tissot.htm. Retrieved May 26, 2008.

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    * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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