![Portrait of James Jacques Joseph Tissot](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/tissot000.jpg)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot Painting Reproductions 4 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.
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
![Still on Top, c.1874 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot076.jpg)
Still on Top c.1874
Oil Painting
$2376
$2376
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-1459
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 87.6 x 53.3 cm
Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 87.6 x 53.3 cm
Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
![Tea Time, 1872 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot077.jpg)
Tea Time 1872
Oil Painting
$1662
$1662
Canvas Print
$54.59
$54.59
SKU: JTS-1460
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 66 x 47.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 66 x 47.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
![A Girl in an Armchair (The Convalescent), 1872 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot078.jpg)
A Girl in an Armchair (The Convalescent) 1872
Oil Painting
$1210
$1210
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-1461
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 37.5 x 45.7 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 37.5 x 45.7 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
![The Japanese Scroll, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot079.jpg)
The Japanese Scroll n.d.
Oil Painting
$1880
$1880
Canvas Print
$55.49
$55.49
SKU: JTS-8398
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 38.7 x 57.2 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 38.7 x 57.2 cm
Private Collection
![Admiring a Portfolio, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot080.jpg)
Admiring a Portfolio n.d.
Oil Painting
$1397
$1397
Paper Art Print
$48.70
$48.70
SKU: JTS-8399
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 59.7 x 73.7 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 59.7 x 73.7 cm
Private Collection
![Portrait of Marie-Heloise Jeanne Ferre May, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot081.jpg)
Portrait of Marie-Heloise Jeanne Ferre May n.d.
Oil Painting
$1119
$1119
Paper Art Print
$47.65
$47.65
SKU: JTS-8400
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 149.2 x 102.7 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 149.2 x 102.7 cm
Private Collection
![Meeting between Faust and Marguerite, 1860 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot082.jpg)
Meeting between Faust and Marguerite 1860
Oil Painting
$3287
$3287
Canvas Print
$84.71
$84.71
SKU: JTS-12326
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 78 x 117 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 78 x 117 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![The Ball, c.1885 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot083.jpg)
The Ball c.1885
Oil Painting
$2654
$2654
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12327
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 90 x 50 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 90 x 50 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![Chrysanthemums, c.1874/75 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot084.jpg)
Chrysanthemums c.1874/75
Oil Painting
$2828
$2828
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12328
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 118.4 x 76.4 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 118.4 x 76.4 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
![The Hammock, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot085.jpg)
The Hammock n.d.
Oil Painting
$1954
$1954
Canvas Print
$51.28
$51.28
SKU: JTS-12356
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Partie Carree, 1870 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot086.jpg)
Partie Carree 1870
Oil Painting
$4514
$4514
Canvas Print
$53.31
$53.31
SKU: JTS-12357
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 119.5 x 144.5 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 119.5 x 144.5 cm
Private Collection
![Portrait of the Vicomtesse de Montmorand, 1889 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot087.jpg)
Portrait of the Vicomtesse de Montmorand 1889
Oil Painting
$1709
$1709
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12358
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Marguerite at the Ramparts, 1861 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot088.jpg)
Marguerite at the Ramparts 1861
Oil Painting
$3057
$3057
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12359
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![The Secret (Confession), c.1867 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot089.jpg)
The Secret (Confession) c.1867
Oil Painting
$3543
$3543
Canvas Print
$53.82
$53.82
SKU: JTS-12360
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Waiting for the Boat at Greenwich, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot090.jpg)
Waiting for the Boat at Greenwich n.d.
Oil Painting
$1925
$1925
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12361
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![The Prodigal Son in Modern Life (The Return), 1880 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot091.jpg)
The Prodigal Son in Modern Life (The Return) 1880
Oil Painting
$2917
$2917
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12362
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100 x 130 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100 x 130 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
![Les Adieux, 1871 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot092.jpg)
Les Adieux 1871
Oil Painting
$3295
$3295
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12363
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100.3 x 62.6 cm
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100.3 x 62.6 cm
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
![The Prodigal Son in Modern Life (The Departure), 1880 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot093.jpg)
The Prodigal Son in Modern Life (The Departure) 1880
Oil Painting
$5633
$5633
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12364
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100 x 130 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 100 x 130 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
![Quiet, n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot094.jpg)
Quiet n.d.
Oil Painting
$1335
$1335
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12365
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 31.7 x 21.6 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 31.7 x 21.6 cm
Private Collection
![The North Stairs at the Louvre , n.d. by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot095.jpg)
The North Stairs at the Louvre n.d.
Oil Painting
$1539
$1539
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12366
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![The Woman of Fashion (La Mondaine), c.1883/85 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot096.jpg)
The Woman of Fashion (La Mondaine) c.1883/85
Oil Painting
$3317
$3317
Canvas Print
$51.28
$51.28
SKU: JTS-12367
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 148.3 x 103 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 148.3 x 103 cm
Private Collection
![Women of Paris - The Circus Lover (The Sporting Women), 1885 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot097.jpg)
Women of Paris - The Circus Lover (The Sporting Women) 1885
Oil Painting
$8011
$8011
Canvas Print
$64.52
$64.52
SKU: JTS-12368
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 147.3 x 101.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 147.3 x 101.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![Henley Regatta, c.1877 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot098.jpg)
Henley Regatta c.1877
Oil Painting
$1777
$1777
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12369
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 46.5 x 94.5 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 46.5 x 94.5 cm
Private Collection
![L'Armoire, 1867 by Joseph Tissot | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/James_Jacques_Joseph_Tissot/paintings-lg/tissot099.jpg)
L'Armoire 1867
Oil Painting
$1829
$1829
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: JTS-12370
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 114.9 x 64.8 cm
Private Collection
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Original Size: 114.9 x 64.8 cm
Private Collection