Portrait of James Jacques Joseph Tissot

James Jacques Joseph Tissot Painting Reproductions 2 of 5

1836-1902

French 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 Joseph Tissot Paintings

The Princess of Broglie, c.1895 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Princess of Broglie c.1895

Oil Painting
$1744
SKU: JTS-1408
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Journey of the Magi, c.1894 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Journey of the Magi c.1894

Oil Painting
$2419
Canvas Print
$52.15
SKU: JTS-1409
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 71 x 101.6 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

In the Louvre, c.1883/85 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

In the Louvre c.1883/85

Oil Painting
$2185
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1410
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 146.8 x 101 cm
Museo de Arte, Ponce

Godbye, on the Mersey, c.1881 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Godbye, on the Mersey c.1881

Oil Painting
$3194
Canvas Print
$58.74
SKU: JTS-1411
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 83.8 x 53.3 cm
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, USA

Kathleen Newton at the Piano, c.1881 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Kathleen Newton at the Piano c.1881

Oil Painting
$1325
SKU: JTS-1412
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Quiet, c.1881 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Quiet c.1881

Oil Painting
$2276
SKU: JTS-1413
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

In the Sunshine, c.1881 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

In the Sunshine c.1881

Oil Painting
$1460
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1414
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 24.8 x 35.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Type of Beauty (Kathleen Newton), 1880 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Type of Beauty (Kathleen Newton) 1880

Oil Painting
$1210
Canvas Print
$57.34
SKU: JTS-1415
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 58.4 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

Mrs. Newton with a Parasol, c.1879 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Mrs. Newton with a Parasol c.1879

Oil Painting
$1549
SKU: JTS-1416
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Musee Baron Martin, Gray, France

Reading a Story, c.1878/80 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Reading a Story c.1878/80

Oil Painting
$834
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1417
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 19 x 28 cm
Private Collection

Spring (Specimen of a Portrait), c.1878 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Spring (Specimen of a Portrait) c.1878

Oil Painting
$1781
SKU: JTS-1418
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Warrior's Daughter, or The Convalescent, c.1878 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Warrior's Daughter, or The Convalescent c.1878

Oil Painting
$2229
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1419
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 36.2 x 21.8 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

Croquet, c.1878 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Croquet c.1878

Oil Painting
$1808
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1420
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 89.8 x 50.8 cm
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Room Overlooking the Harbor, c.1876/78 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Room Overlooking the Harbor c.1876/78

Oil Painting
$2133
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1421
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

A Fete Day at Brighton, c.1875/78 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

A Fete Day at Brighton c.1875/78

Oil Painting
$2318
SKU: JTS-1422
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

In the Conservatory (The Rivals), c.1875/78 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

In the Conservatory (The Rivals) c.1875/78

Oil Painting
$2872
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1423
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 38.4 x 51 cm
Private Collection

The Fan, c.1875 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Fan c.1875

Oil Painting
$1182
Canvas Print
$49.82
SKU: JTS-1424
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 38.5 x 52 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA

Quarrelling, c.1874/76 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Quarrelling c.1874/76

Oil Painting
$1808
SKU: JTS-1425
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Reading the News, c.1874 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Reading the News c.1874

Oil Painting
$1801
Canvas Print
$55.85
SKU: JTS-1426
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 86.4 x 52 cm
Private Collection

The Ball on Shipboard, c.1874 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Ball on Shipboard c.1874

Oil Painting
$4977
Canvas Print
$49.67
SKU: JTS-1427
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 84.1 x 129.5 cm
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

London Visitors, c.1874 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

London Visitors c.1874

Oil Painting
$2468
Canvas Print
$53.38
SKU: JTS-1428
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 160 x 114.3 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Boarding the Yacht, 1873 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

Boarding the Yacht 1873

Oil Painting
$2455
SKU: JTS-1429
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Captain and the Mate, 1873 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Captain and the Mate 1873

Oil Painting
$3538
Canvas Print
$54.05
SKU: JTS-1430
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 53.6 x 76.2 cm
Private Collection

The Return from the Boating Trip, 1873 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction

The Return from the Boating Trip 1873

Oil Painting
$1921
Canvas Print
$65.42
SKU: JTS-1431
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 61 x 43.1 cm
Private Collection

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