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James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, 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 produce…
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culture · French painter and illustrator (1836–1902) · painter · caricaturist · printmaker · etcher · graphic artist · also James Tissot, Jacques Joseph Tissot, James Jacques Joseph Tissot, J. J. Tissot, Tissot, J. James Tissot
Born 15 October 1836 · Died 8 August 1902 · Q381248
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2019· 4 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘James Tissot: Fashion & Faith’ Review: More Than Pretty People?
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Bay Area Reporter: James Tissot's frisson of fashion & faith
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The Art Newspaper: James Tissot: the 19th century painter who swapped high society for the Holy Land
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2013· 1 entry
Chicago Reader: James Tissot’s tragic muse
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2000· 1 entry
English Victorian art writer Christopher Wood described Tissot as "the greatest painter of social life in Victorian times"
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1906· 1 entry
Filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché used the Tissot Bible as the basis for The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ, her largest production at Gaumont to date featuring approximately three hundred extras over twenty-five total
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1902· 1 entry
Died 1902-08-08.
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1901· 1 entry
And engravings after them were published in 1904
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1894· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1894).
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1886· 1 entry
1889, and 1896 to make studies of its landscapes and cultures, which would come to distinguish his series from contemporary Biblical art through its "considerable archaeological exactitude" in striving for accuracy rathe
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1885· 2 entries
With a 15-painting series titled Quinze Tableau sur la Femme à Paris (Fifteen Paintings on the Woman of Paris), displayed at the Galerie Sedelmeyer
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Tissot experienced a religious vision at the Church of St
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1882· 1 entry
Newton succumbed to her illness in Tissot's arms on 9 November 1882, "with the ardent faith of a neophyte and the silent resignation of a saint."
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1880· 1 entry
Around 1880–1881 she contracted tuberculosis and Tissot portrayed her sitting well-wrapped outdoors, as fresh air was thought to have a curing effect.
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1877· 2 entries
She quickly began an intimate relationship with Tissot, moving in as a housemate in 1877.
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Tissot's paintings and prints of 1877–1881 included images of travel along the Thames or south coast and to Paris, but many focused on Newton relaxing and reading in the garden, or surrounded by visiting children.
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1876· 1 entry
Who is believed to be Tissot's, and the couple would frequently entertain her previous children at Tissot's property even while they continued to live with her relatives
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1875· 1 entry
Or 1876, Tissot met Kathleen Newton, an Irish divorcee who became the painter's companion and frequent sitter
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1874· 3 entries
And he travelled to Venice with Édouard Manet at about the same time
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Degas asked him to join them in the first exhibition organized by the artists who became known as the Impressionists, a then-nascent artistic movement that would inspire much of Tissot's own style
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With a similar subject, depicting a diverse range of contemporary national flags sewn together in a large awning
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1873· 1 entry
And his paintings appealed greatly to wealthy British industrialists throughout the second half of the 19th century
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1871· 1 entry
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
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1859· 1 entry
Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time
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1856· 1 entry
Or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art
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1853· 1 entry
And subsequent Meiji Restoration in 1868
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-10-15.
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