
James Jacques Joseph Tissot Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 5
1836-1902French Victorian Neoclassicism Painter
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 - August 8, 1902) was a French painter.
Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three. In 1861 he showed The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite, which was purchased by the state for the Luxembourg Gallery. His first characteristic period made him a painter of the charms of women. Demi-mondaine would be more accurate as a description of the series of studies which he called La Femme a Paris.
He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and, falling under suspicion as a Communard, left Paris for London. Here he studied etching with Sir Seymour Haden, drew caricatures for Vanity Fair, and painted portraits as well as genre subjects.
Sometime in the 1870s Tissot met a divorcee, Mrs. Kathleen Newton, who became his companion and the model for many of his paintings. Mrs. Newton moved into Tissot's household in 1876 and lived with him until her suicide in the late stages of consumption in 1882 at the age of 28.
It was many years before he turned to the chief labor of his career - the production of a series of 700 water-color drawings to illustrate the life of Christ and the Old Testament. He disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after the death of Kathleen Newton, and went to Palestine. In 1896 the series of 350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in Paris, and the following year found them on show in London. They were then published by the firm of Lemercier in Paris, who had paid him 1,100,000 francs for them. (Over 500 related drawings, watercolors and oils are now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.)
After this he turned to the scenes of the Old Testament, upon which he was still engaged at the abbey of Buillon, in the department of Doubs, France, when he died.
The merits of Tissot's Bible illustrations lay rather in the care with which he studied the details of scenery than in any quality of religious emotion. He seemed to aim, above all, at accuracy, and, in his figures, at a vivid realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types.
117 Paintings of Joseph Tissot
Private Collection
Young Lady in a Boat
$756
$77.80
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal Quebec Canada
October
$961
$47.90
National Gallery of Art Ottawa Canada
The Letter
$897
$48.44
Tate Gallery London United Kingdom
The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta
$829
$54.12
Private Collection
Mavourneen (Portrait of Kathleen Newton)
$552
$47.90
Private Collection
Algeron Moses Marsden
$586
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney Australia
The Widower
$1069
$47.90
Art Gallery and Museums Wakefield United Kingdom
The Thames
$1162
$47.90
Beaverbrook Art Gallery Fredericton Canada
A Passing Storm
$968
$64.56
Galleries and Museums Sheffield United Kingdom
A Convalescent
$881
$55.18
Tate Gallery London United Kingdom
A Portrait (Miss Lloyd)
$642
$51.24
Tate Gallery London United Kingdom
Portsmouth Dockyard
$881
$49.80
Guildhall Art Gallery London United Kingdom
Too Early
$1076
$61.49
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo USA
The Political Lady
$1614
$62.37
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto Canada
The Shop Girl (The Milliner's Shop)
$1102
$49.90
Private Collection
Going to Business (Going to the City)
$693
$47.90
Private Collection
Orphan
$1132
$47.90
Private Collection
On the Thames
$1031
City Art Gallery Leeds United Kingdom
The Traveller (The Bridesmaid)
$1119
$47.90
Private Collection
The Garden Bench
$1580
$61.93
National Gallery of Art Washington USA
Hide and Seek
$760
$52.80
Private Collection
The Bunch of Lilacs
$677
$47.90
Musee des Beaux Arts Besancon France
A Little Nimrod
$873
Private Collection
A Widow
$1378
$52.01