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James Tissot

1836–1902 · French

Born
1836 · Nantes
Died
1902 · Chenecey-Buillon

64 works in the Collect24 Registry

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James Tissot was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist known for incorporating realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for genre paintings of contemporary European high society, but also explored medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects.

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Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [ʒɑk ʒozɛf tiso]; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot (UK: TISS-oh, US: tee-SOH), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé. Tissot served in the Franco-Prussian War on the side of France and later the Paris Commune. In 1871 he moved to London, where he found further success as an artist and began a relationship with Irishwoman Kathleen Newton, who lived with him as a close companion and muse until her death in 1882. Tissot maintained close relations with the Impressionist movement for much of his life, including James Abbott Whistler and friend and protégé Edgar Degas. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1894.

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James Tissot, The Hammock

James Tissot

The Hammock, 1880

etching and drypoint on antique laid paper

35 × 20.1 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-192136

James Tissot, At the Sea Side

James Tissot

At the Sea Side, 1880

etching and drypoint

37.9 × 13.7 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-191416

James Tissot, The Lovers

James Tissot

The Lovers, 1872

oil on canvas

101 × 61.5 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-109876

James Tissot, My Garden in St. John’s Wood

James Tissot

My Garden in St. John’s Wood, 1878

Etching and drypoint; published state

18.6 × 11.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-306979

James Tissot, Grand'Garde (Souvenir of the Siege of Paris)

James Tissot

Grand'Garde (Souvenir of the Siege of Paris), 1878

Etching and drypoint on laid paper; only state

34.2 × 25.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441319

James Tissot, The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. IV: The Fatted Calf

James Tissot

The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. IV: The Fatted Calf, 1882

Etching on laid paper; second state of two

51.2 × 63 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441309

James Tissot, First Frontispiece (with the Monogram)

James Tissot

First Frontispiece (with the Monogram), 1875

Drypoint on laid paper; only state

33 × 24.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-457674

James Tissot, Morning

James Tissot

Morning, 1886

Mezzotint on wove paper; trial proof

67.4 × 56 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-434177

James Tissot, Third Frontispiece

James Tissot

Third Frontispiece, 1876

Drypoint

38.2 × 28.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-274983

James Tissot, The Three Crows Inn, Gravesend

James Tissot

The Three Crows Inn, Gravesend, 1877

Etching on laid paper; third state of three

29 × 38 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-438845

James Tissot, The Departure of the Prodigal Son

James Tissot

The Departure of the Prodigal Son, 1862–63

Point of brush and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

15.2 × 32.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-586332

James Tissot, Study of a young man bending forward to kiss a hand, for the painting "The Departure of the Prodigal Son"

James Tissot

Study of a young man bending forward to kiss a hand, for the painting "The Departure of the Prodigal Son", 1862–63

Graphite, heightened with white, on pink paper

24.1 × 30.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-568571

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