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James Tissot in the Roaring ‘20s
At the time of James Tissot’s death in 1902, four of his oil paintings already had entered public art collections, and thirteen more were acquired in the following two decades. In the 1920s, twelve...
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Tissot’s Comeback in the 1930s
By 1930, twenty-nine of James Tissot’s oil paintings were in public art collections worldwide: thirteen in France, nine in the U.K., three in the U.S., one in Canada, one in India, and two in New...
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Girls to Float Your Boat, by James Tissot
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James Tissot in the 1940s: La Mystérieuse is identified
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James Tissot in the era of Abstract Expressionism
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James Tissot and the Revival of Victorian Art in the 1960s
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If only we’d bought James Tissot’s paintings in the 1970s!
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James Tissot’s popularity boom in the 1980s
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James Tissot in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
Award-winning musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) became interested in Victorian art at the age of eight. As he achieved success with his musicals, Evita (1976), Cats (1981),...
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A visit to James Tissot’s house & Kathleen Newton’s grave
On a sunny September afternoon, a black cab brought my husband and me to the gate at James Tissot’s former home in London, in Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood. Built in 1825, the house was No. 17 when...
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James Tissot’s “A Civic Procession” (c. 1879)
James Tissot painted A Civic Procession Descending Ludgate Hill, London (oil on canvas, 84.5 by 43 in./214.6 by 109.2 cm), around 1879, while he was living at 17 (now 44) Grove End Road, St. John’s...
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James Tissot’s “Miss Sydney Milner-Gibson” (c. 1872)
The memory of an English gentlewoman painted by James Tissot survives in the large portrait he was commissioned to paint of her by his young friend, Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842 – 1922). After the...
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Celebrities & Millionaires Vie for Tissot’s Paintings in the 1990s
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The Stars of Victorian Painting: Auction Prices
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Belle Époque Portraits in Pastel by James Tissot
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A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Ladies of the Chariots”
James Tissot’s The Ladies of the Chariots (Ces dames des chars), also called The Circus, was exhibited in Paris in 1885 and in London in 1886. It is the second in his La Femme à Paris series, painted...
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A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Too Early”
James Tissot exhibited Too Early at the Royal Academy in 1873, where it was his first big success after moving to London from Paris two years previously. Victorian art expert Christopher Wood (1941 –...
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A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Artists’ Wives”
The Artists’ Wives (1885, also called The Artists’ Ladies) depicts a gathering of artists and their wives on Varnishing Day, the evening before the official opening of the Salon, the annual art...
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A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Ball on Shipboard”
James Tissot exhibited The Ball on Shipboard at the Royal Academy in London from May through August 1874, three years after he had left Paris following the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War....
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Tissot in the new millenium: Museum Exhibitions
Interest in the work of James Tissot has grown steadily over the decades of the twentieth century and has culminated in numerous exhibitions and loans of his paintings since 2000. The Letter (c. 1878),...
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