James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Paintings
Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects
Journey of the Magi
In Full Sunlight
Tea
Women of Paris. The Circus Lover
Joseph Dwelleth in Egypt
Spring Morning
Clotilde Briatte, Comtesse Pillet-Will
Abraham's Counsel to Sarah
Triumph of the Will, The Challenge
A Reclining Lady
The Repentant Magdalene
Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise
The Ark Passes Over the Jordan
On the Thames. A Heron
A Lady in a Black and White Dress
A Woman in an Elegant Interior
Beating the Retreat in the Tuilleries Gardens
Behold He Standeth behind Our Wall
Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Second Frontispiece Sitting on the Globe
During the Service (Martin Luther's Doubts)
Faust and Marguerite in the Garden
Foreign Visitors at The Louvre
Gentleman in a Railway Carriage
Hagar and the Angel in the Desert
Healing of the Lepers at Capernaum
Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him
Jesus Goes Up Alone onto a Mountain to Pray
Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue
Kathleen Newton in an Armchair
La Soeur Ainee
La Soeur Ainee
Foyer of the Comedie Francaise during the Siege of Paris
The Portico of the National Gallery in London
Mary Magdalene`s Box of Very Precious Ointment
Mary Magdelane before Her Conversion
Mavourneen ( Portrait of Kathleen Newton)
On the Thames ( Return from Henley)
Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles
Entry of the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem
Portsmouth Dockyard ( How Happy I Could be with Either)
Ruins (Voices Within)
The Captain's Daughter (Study)
The Confidence ( The Admission)
The Daughter of Herodias Dancing
The Departure Platform Victoria Station
The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
The Prodigal Son in Foreign Climes
The Prodigal Son in Modern Life - the Return
The Prodigal Son, the Departure
The Prodigal Son, the Fatted Calf
The Return from the Boating Trip
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Sporting Ladies ( The Amateur Circus)
The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern Greenwich London
Triumph of the Will the Challenge
Type of Beauty ( Kathleen Newton)
What Our Savior Saw from the Cross
Without a Dowry (also known as Sunday in the Luxembourg Gardens)
Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects
Young Lady Holding Japanese Objects
Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects
Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects
Faust and Marguerite in the Garden
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Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), who became known as James Tissot by 1854, was a French painter and illustrator. He left Paris for London in 1871. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also made paintings illustrating the Bible.
Early life
Jacques Tissot was born in the port town of Nantes, France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English.[1]
Early career
The Circle of the Rue Royale, a scene in Paris seen from the balcony of the Hôtel de Coislin overlooking the Place de la Concorde.
In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe.[2] Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Ingres. Lamothe provided a majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet.[1]
In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust.[3] These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings.[1]
Mature career
Portrait of James Tissot by Edgar Degas, c.1866-67
Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart.[1] In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall.[4]
Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defence of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. Either because of the radical political associations related to the latter (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871.[5] During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques.[6] Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London. Bowles gave Tissot a place to stay and a cartooning job for Vanity Fair.[7]
Tissot quickly developed his reputation as a painter of elegantly dressed women shown in scenes of fashionable life. By 1872, Tissot bought a house in St John's Wood, an area of London very popular with artists at the time. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, "in 1874 Edmond de Goncourt wrote sarcastically that he had 'a studio with a waiting room where, at all times, there is iced champagne at the disposal of visitors'".[8]
He gained membership of The Arts Club in 1873.[1]
Paintings by Tissot appealed greatly to wealthy British industrialists during the second half of the 19th-century. During 1872 he earned 94,515 francs, an income normally only enjoyed by those in the echeleons of the upper classes.[1]
In 1874, Degas asked him to join them in the first exhibition organized by the artists who became known as the Impressionists, but Tissot refused. He continued to be close to these artists, however. Berthe Morisot visited him in London in 1874, and he travelled to Venice with Édouard Manet at about the same time. He regularly saw Whistler, who influenced Tissot's Thames river scenes.[1]
In 1875-6, Tissot met Kathleen Newton, a divorcee who became the painter's companion and frequent model. He composed an etching of her in 1876 entitled Portrait of Mrs N., more commonly titled La frileuse.[1] She gave birth to a son, Cecil George Newton in 1876, who is believed to be Tissot's son. She moved into Tissot's household in St. John's Wood in 1876 and lived with him until her death in the late stages of consumption in 1882. Tissot frequently referred to these years with Newton as the happiest of his life, a time when he was able to live out his dream of a family life.[5]
After Kathleen Newton's death, Tissot returned to Paris. A major exhibition of his work took place in 1885 at the Galerie Sedelmeyer, where he showed 15 large paintings in a series called La Femme à Paris. Unlike the genre scenes of fashionable women he painted in London, these paintings represent different types and classes of women, shown in their professional and social contexts.[1] The works also show the widespread influence of Japanese prints, as he used unexpected angles and framing from that tradition. He created a monumental context in the size of the canvases.[10] Tissot was among many Western artists and designers influenced at the time by Japanese art, fashion and aesthetics.[11][12]
Late career
In 1885, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, which led him to spend the rest of his life making paintings about Biblical events. Many of his artist friends were skeptical about his conversion, as it conveniently coincided with the French Catholic revival, a reaction against the secular attitude of the French Third Republic. At a time when French artists were working in impressionism, pointilism, and heavy oil washes, Tissot was moving toward realism in his watercolors. To assist in his completion of biblical illustrations, Tissot traveled to the Middle East in 1886, 1889, and 1896 to make studies of the landscape and people. His series of 365 gouache (opaque watercolor) illustrations showing the life of Christ were shown to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences in Paris (1894–5), London (1896) and New York (1898–9), before being bought by the Brooklyn Museum in 1900.[13] They were published in a French edition in 1896–7 and in an English one in 1897–8, bringing Tissot vast wealth and fame. During July 1894, Tissot was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's most prestigious medal.[1] Tissot spent the last years of his life working on paintings of subjects from the Old Testament.[14] Although he never completed the series, he exhibited 80 of these paintings in Paris in 1901 and engravings after them were published in 1904.[5]
Death and legacy
Tissot died suddenly in Doubs, France on 8 August 1902, while living in the Château de Buillon, a former abbey which he had inherited from his father in 1888. His grave is in the chapel sited within the grounds of the chateau.[1][5] Widespread use of his illustrations in literature and slides continued after his death with The Life of Christ and The Old Testament becoming the "definitive Bible images". His images have provided a foundation for contemporary films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Age of Innocence (1993). In the first half of the 20th century, there was a re-kindling of interest in his portraits of fashionable ladies and some fifty years later, these were achieving record prices.[1]
See also
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross (James Tissot)
References and sources
References
Matyjaszkiewicz, Krystyna (2011), "Tissot, Jacques Joseph (1836–1902)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), retrieved 5 July 2014, (subscription required (help))
"James Tissot - Tate". Tate.
"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: James Tissot". newadvent.org.
"Portrait of James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot".
Misfeldt, Willard E., "Tissot, James", Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press), retrieved 5 July 2014, (subscription required (help))
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tissot, James Joseph Jacques". Encyclopædia Britannica 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1015–1016.
"James Tissot: Tea (1998.170) - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.
Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2009), "Tissot, James", The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)
"On the Thames". The Athenaeum. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
By Jules Claretie in his book L'Art français en 1872 and by Philippe Burty (1830–1890) in Japonisme III: La Renaissance littéraire et artistique
"Définition japonisme et traduction". Le Dictionnaire. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
"Japonism". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
Brooklyn Museum. "James Tissot". Retrieved 3 May 2011.
Jewish Museum. "James Tissot".
Sources
Biography of Tissot with recent information on Kathleen Newton
Misfeldt, Willard E. "Tissot, James [Jacques-Joseph]" in Oxford Art Online.
Wentworth, Michael. "James Tissot." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Print
Wood, Christopher. "Tissot: Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836-1902." London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Print.
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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