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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot interior
In the Conservatory, James Tissot. See my post on James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot multiple portrait
En plein soleil by James Jacques Joseph Tissot. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link under image and then zoom or Download arrow.
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James Tissot: “The Life of Christ”
As I mentioned in an earlier post, French painter James Tissot, known for his radiant images of turn of the century high society in Paris and London, devoted much of his later work to religious themes. He created an ambitious series of 350 gouache and watercolor paintings depicting the life of Christ, for which he…
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Small museums are not only a treat because of the wonderful gems sometimes found in their collections; they can also one-up larger museums in their ability to be flexible and open minded about their exhibitions. (They often have to be so, when vying to assemble exhibitions by borrowing from larger and more prestigious institutions.) The…
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Self-portraits #13
More in my ongoing series of posts about artists’ self-portraits. I find self-portraits fascinating not just for the range of time periods and styles, but for the interesting variation in the way artists pose themselves. (Images above, links to my posts: Henri Martin, Marie-Suzanne Roslin, James Tissot, Ernest Meissonier, Peder Severin Kroyer, Giovanni Boldini, Camille…
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Paul-César Helleu
Though he painted landscapes and still life, and worked in oil, French artist Paul-César Helleu was known primarily for his beautiful portraits of turn of the century society women, done primarily in pastel, chalk and drypoint etching. Helleu entered the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts at an early age, studying in the academic tradition under Jean-Léon…