Search results for: “tissot”
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Eye Candy for Today: James Tissot’s Japanese Scroll
The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction. The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Gallery of the HMS Calcutta
The Gallery of HMS Calcutta, James Tissot, oli in canvas, roughly 27 x 36 in (68 x 92 cm). Link os to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate, London. 19th century French painter James Tissot, who was unjustly often dismissed as a shallow chronicler of high society, here demonstrates a…
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Tissot’s Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds, James Tissot This is one of a remarkable series of 350 paintings — done primarily in gouache — in which Tissot depicted events in the New Testament of the Bible relevant to the life of Christ (see my pervious post on James Tissot’s series, “The Life of Christ”). At the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Tea
Tea, James Tissot In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image for the high-resolution version. Tissot here copied and expanded on a portion of another of his own paintings, Bad News. The change in context from the narrative of the latter painting gives this one a very different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Holyday
Holyday, James Tissot Sometimes listed as “The Picnic”. In the Tate Britain. Use Full Screen link under the image (or full size here). While today is not a Holyday (holiday), it is Tissot’s birthday, a nice day to welcome fall foliage and celebrate a wonderful and underrated painter.
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Tissot’s Kathleen Newton
In 1875, French painter and printmaker James Jacques-Joseph Tissot met divorcee Kathleen Newton, and fell for her head-over-brushes. They had a scant seven years together before he was devastated by her death from tuberculosis in 1882. During that time, which Tissot described as the happiest in his life, he painted and drew Newton and her…