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Hide and Seek, James Jacques Joseph Tissot My fascination with this painting by Tissot (an underrated painter in my opinion), in not so much the ostensible subjects of the children playing as their mother reads, but the play of light among the wonderfully tactile surfaces and objects in this fascinating space, which is in the…

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…

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…

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…