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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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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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What became of James Tissot and Alfred Stevens?
Note: This is the second part of an earlier post, James Tissot and Alfred Stevens By 1867, James Tissot (1836 – 1902), like his older friend and mentor, Alfred Stevens (1823 – 1906), was a wealthy...
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James Tissot is now in Italy!
Finally, there is a major exhibition of James Tissot’s work in Italy. As of January, 2015, there were eighty-seven oil paintings by James Tissot in public art collections worldwide: twenty-four in the...
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Victorians on the Move, by James Tissot
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Tissot vs. Bouguereau: La sœur aînée (The Elder Sister)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) and James Tissot 1836 – 1902), French academic painters and realists whose work earned high prices, each painted the subject of an elder sister holding a...
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Tissot in the U.S.: The Speed Museum, Kentucky
The Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky has two must-see oil paintings by James Tissot – and you can see them as of March 12, when the museum reopens after a three-year, $56 million renovation and...
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Happy Hour with James Tissot
Since today is April Fool’s Day – and my birthday – pour a glass of something cheerful, and let’s celebrate together by admiring James Tissot’s most joyful images. Tissot’s paintings are notable for...
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