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Tissot in the new millenium: Museum Acquisitions
Since 2000, museums have acquired seven more oil paintings by James Tissot. As of January, 2015, there now are seventy-eight oil paintings by James Tissot in public art collections worldwide:...
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Tissot in the new millennium: Oils at Auction
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James Tissot’s Medieval Paintings, 1858-67
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James Tissot’s Faust series, 1860-65
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James Tissot’s Directoire series, 1868-71
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Tissot and his Friends Clown Around
Today is April Fool’s Day – and my birthday – so here’s something a little offbeat. Among the contemporary subjects painted by French artists in the second half of the nineteenth century were various...
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James Tissot’s Georgian Girls, c. 1872
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James Tissot’s Weather Forecast
Though James Tissot has a reputation for painting languorous ladies, his paintings from the 1870s often depict scenes of psychological tension, and he frequently used weather as a device to heighten...
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James Tissot Domesticated
James Tissot’s tense, moody oil paintings from the mid-1870s gave way to straightforward scenes filled with the contentment of domestic life, during the few years of Tissot’s life in which he could...
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Tissot and Degas visit the Louvre, 1879
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The Art of Waiting, by James Tissot
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Tissot’s Brush with Impressionism
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James Tissot’s Church Ladies
At the Salon in 1866, James Tissot exhibited Leaving the Confessional, a picture of a pretty, pious woman after she has made her confession. He was 30, and though he was living in student lodgings in...
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James Tissot and Alfred Stevens
James Tissot’s work often is compared to that of Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1823 –1906). Alfred Stevens, 1865. (Photo: Wikimedia.org) Stevens was born in Brussels, where he received his first...
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The James Tissot Tour of Paris
Enjoying a view of the Arc de Triomphe One hundred seventy-nine years ago today, French painter James Tissot was born. And three years ago, I published my book, The Hammock: A novel based on the true...
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Tissot and his Friends Clown Around
Today is April Fool’s Day – and my birthday – so here’s something a little offbeat. Among the contemporary subjects painted by French artists in the second half of the nineteenth century were various...
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James Tissot’s Georgian Girls, c. 1872
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James Tissot’s Weather Forecast
Though James Tissot has a reputation for painting languorous ladies, his paintings from the 1870s often depict scenes of psychological tension, and he frequently used weather as a device to heighten...
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James Tissot Domesticated
James Tissot’s tense, moody oil paintings from the mid-1870s gave way to straightforward scenes filled with the contentment of domestic life, during the few years of Tissot’s life in which he could...
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Tissot and Degas visit the Louvre, 1879
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