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Oil paintings by James Tissot registered with the Nazi Era Provenance...
As of January, 2015, there are twenty-six oil paintings by James Tissot in public art collections in the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico, and seventeen of them are registered with the Nazi Era...
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Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Aristocrats (1865 – 1868)
James Tissot, the son of a draper and a hat manufacturer, was so skilled a painter of women’s fashions that he receives little notice for his depictions of men’s fashions. The Marquis and the Marquise...
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Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Officers, soldiers & sailors (1868 –...
“Our industrial and artistic creations can perish, our morals and our fashions can fall into obscurity, but a picture by M. Tissot will be enough for archaeologists of the future to reconstitute our...
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Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: The Casual Male (1871 – 1878)
By the 1870s, fashions for Victorian men were transitioning toward styles familiar to us today. The ubiquitous, long and skirted black frock coat, and the morning coat (cut away to feature tails...
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Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Sportsmen & Servants (1874 – 1885)
Not every man that Tissot painted was an exemplar of high style; he depicted a whole cast of supporting players to his aristocrats, military figures, and fashionable males. Still on Top (c. 1874), by...
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Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Gentlemen & Rogues (1865 – 1879)
James Tissot, often described as a dandy, seems to have dressed flamboyantly as a young art student in Paris and early in his career. Self portrait (c. 1865), by James Tissot. Fine Arts Museums of San...
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James Tissot’s Cloisonné
James Tissot’s meticulous technical skills extended beyond oil painting, watercolor, pastels, and engraving to cloisonné. Cloisonné is an enameling technique in which delicate metal strips or wires are...
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James Tissot’s Fashion Plates (1864-1878): A Guest Post for Mimi Matthews by...
The popular and informative 19th century romance, literature, and history blogger, author Mimi Matthews, features a guest post from me this week, James Tissot’s Fashion Plates (1864-1878): A Guest...
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A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Fan”
James Tissot painted The Fan about 1875 in London, where he had been living in the four years after the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. Following the bloody end to the Commune, Tissot...
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A Closer Look: The Circus Lover (The Amateur Circus), by James Tissot
The Circus Lover, one of fifteen oil paintings in James Tissot’s series of contemporary life called “La femme à Paris” (“Women of Paris”), was first exhibited in Paris in 1885 as Les femmes de sport...
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Tissot’s Study for the family of the Marquis de Miramon (1865)
James Tissot executed his oil paintings with meticulous attention to detail, a characteristic of his temperament as well as his academic training in Paris, and he often painted a small preparatory...
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James Tissot in Mourning
An aspect of the fashionable clothing of his day that James Tissot did not fail to capture in paint was mourning. Several of his pictures show mourning attire of the 1860s to the 1880s in great...
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James Tissot’s Mourners at Auction
All auction prices listed are for general reader interest only, and are shown in this order: $ (USD)/£ (GBP). All prices listed are Hammer Price (the winning bid amount) unless noted as Premium,...
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A James Tissot Chronology, by Lucy Paquette for The Victorian Web
Self portrait (c.1865), by James Tissot. Oil on panel, 49.8 x 30.2 cm (19 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.). The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California. Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams...
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James Tissot (1836-1902): a brief biography by Lucy Paquette for The...
James Tissot’s career spanned three successful periods: his early years in Paris (1859-1870), his business-like decade in London (1871-1882), and his later years in France and the Holy Land (1883-85),...
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The Artist’s Closet: James Tissot’s Prop Costumes
James Tissot kept a small wardrobe of prop costumes, which he periodically supplanted, that provided visual interest to his oil paintings. Tissot, whose father was a wholesale linen draper (a trader...
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Tissot’s Tiger Skin: A Prominent Prop
Since today is April Fool’s Day – and my birthday – let’s have a lighthearted look at a prop that James Tissot often used, a tiger skin. In 1877, Tissot draped a tiger skin over a wide upholstered...
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Wicker: James Tissot’s Modern Prop Furniture
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may recall this story: Study for The Dreamer (or, Summer Evening, c. 1876), by James Tissot. Private Collection. (Photo: Wikiart.org) James Tissot painted...
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A Proper British Prop: Tissot’s Tartan Blanket
Among the recurring props that James Tissot used in his oil paintings, including the tiger skin, the leopard fur, certain striking gowns, and numerous wicker chairs, were fringed woolen blankets, most...
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James Tissot’s Models à la Mode
James Tissot often reused models, both male and female, in his paintings. While he varied their poses to capture different angles of their faces, several of his models are recognizable from picture to...
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