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JamesJacques Joseph Tissot

Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: ; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot (/ˈtɪsoʊ/), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible.
Jacques Tissot was born in the port town of Nantes, France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English.
In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Lamothe provided the majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet.
In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings.
Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart. In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall.
Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defence of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. Either because of the radical political associations related to the latter (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871. During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques. Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London.
Tissot quickly developed his reputation as a painter of elegantly dressed women shown in scenes of fashionable life. By 1872, Tissot bought a house in St John's Wood, an area of London very popular with artists at the time. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, "in 1874 Edmond de Goncourt wrote sarcastically that he had 'a studio with a waiting room where, at all times, there is iced champagne at the disposal of visitors'".
He gained membership of The Arts Club in 1873.
Paintings by Tissot appealed greatly to wealthy British industrialists during the second half of the 19th century. During 1872 he earned 94,515 francs, an income normally only enjoyed by those in the echeleons of the upper classes.

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On the Thames (also known as Return from Henley)

A Woman in an Elegant Interior

Berthe

Portrait of an Actress in Eighteenth Century Dress

A Declaration of Love

Self Portrait

Mrs. Newton with a child by a pool

Girl with a fan

In the Sunshine

Spring Specimen of a Portrait

October

Older Sister

A Little Nimrod

In the greenhouse

Mrs. Newton with a Parasol

Hush! (The Concert)

Autumn on the Thames

Older Sister

On the River

Ramsgate

Premier frontispiece

Portrait of Woman

October

A Fete Day at Brighton

young lady in a boat

Kathleen Newton in an Armchair

Type Of Beauty

Holyday

The Garden Bench

The Circle of the Rue Royale

In the Sunshine

Jesus Goes Up Alone onto a Mountain to Pray

Le Comedien

Portrait of James Tissot

Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects

English Without a Dowry (also known as Sunday in the Luxembourg Gardens ) Français Sans Dot

English The Woman of Fashion

In Full Sunlight (En plein soleil)

A Little Nimrod

English Women of Paris The Circus Lover

Hide and Seek

Français La femme Préhistorique

In Church

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects

The Ladies of the Cars

The Animals Enter the Ark

The Last Evening

English Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects

Hide and Seek

London Visitors

Journey of the Magi

English Room Overlooking the Harbour

English By the Thames at Richmond

Orphan

Beating the Retreat in the Tuileries Gardens

Emigrants

Waiting for the Ferry

A Convalescent

Letter 'L' with Hats

In the Conservatory

Croquet

Fauste and Marguerite in the Garden

English The Tedious Story

Quiet

Without a Dowry (also known as Sunday in the Luxembourg Gardens)

English At the Rifle Range

The Jews Passover

The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth)

English On the Thames. A Heron

Seaside

English The Shop Girl

Portrait De Femme A L'Eventail

unaccepted

the prodigal son the departure

Uncle Fred

Marguerite in Church

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: the Fatted Calf

Jephthah's Daughter

October

Bad News

Kathleen Newton at the Piano

A Woman of Ambition

Judas Hangs Himself, illustration for 'The Life of Christ'

The Last Evening

The Deluge

The Dove Returns to Noah

Portrait of Miss Lloyd

Spring

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life. In Foreign Climes

The Hull Of A Battle Ship

Children's Party

Waiting for the Ferry

Partie Carree

The Sporting Ladies (also known as The Amateur Circus)

Annunciation, illustration for 'The Life of Christ'

English The Dreamer (Summer Evening)

English Reading the News

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life. The Fatted Calf

the prodigal son the fatted calf

The Warrior's Daughter, or The Convalescent

The Princesse De Broglie

English A Woman of Ambition (Political Woman) also known as The Reception

The Two Sisters; Portrait

Un Dejeuner

Young Lady Holding Japanese Objects

A Reclining Lady

English In Church

Dans L'Eglise

The Ball

Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects

The Cup Found

The Rendez Vous

Marguerite Au Rempart

During the Service (Martin Luther's Doubts)

Waiting for the Ferry

Joseph Dwelleth in Egypt

July Specimen of a Portrait

Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects

In The Louvre

Mavourneen (also known as Portrait of Kathleen Newton)

The Ruins (Inner Voices)

Tea

In the Louvre

Triumph of the Will the Challenge

au louvre

the shop girl

The Fan

The Warrior's Daughter

Reading a Story

Moses Laid Amid the Flags

At The Louvre

Going to Business

still on top

untitled (1828)

Jacob Deceives Isaac

Holyday

The Farewell

Chrysanthemums

The Bunch of Lilacs

The Egyptians Admire Sarai's Beauty

English On the Thames

Algeron Moses Marsden

The Bridesmaid

The Captain and the Mate

The Gathering of the Manna

Prodigal Son, The Return

Gentleman in a Railway Carriage

In the Louvre

A Widow

the sporting ladies

Portsmouth Dockyard

A Visit to the Yacht (La Visite au Navire)

An Interesting Story

Young Woman in a Boat

Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue

English The Thames Deutsch Die Themse

Spring Morning

Too Early

The Captain's Daughter

The Shop Girl

Jacob and Rachel at the Well

July

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: in Foreign Climes

The Plague of Flies

A Convalescent

The Letter

The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern Greenwich London

Spring

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Noah's Drunkenness

Portrait of Mlle. L.L. (Young Lady in a Red Jacket)

Woman in an Interior

English Spring Français Printemps

tea time

Isaiah

untitled (8203)

The Princess of Broglie

Pharaoh's Daughter Receives the Mother of Moses

Water Is Changed into Blood

English A Winter’s Walk Français Promenade dans la neige

The Prophet Zechariah

The Morning Ride

English Ball on Shipboard

The Confidence aka The Admission

In the Conservatory (also known as The Rivals)

Mrs Newton with a Parasol

untitled (9661)

The Mess of Pottage

Quiet

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Algeron Moses Marsden

Portrait of Miss Lloye

Dans la serre

Self Portrait

God's Promises to Abram

Young Girl in Red Jacket

at the louvre

Mavourneen (also known as Portrait of Kathleen Newton)

The Apparition

The Farewell

the repentant magdalene

The Departure: Study for the Prodigal Son

A Winter's Walk (also known as Kathleen Newton in snow scene)

The Conquest of the Amorites

Mary Magdalene's Box of Very Precious Ointment

What Our Saviour Saw from the Cross

The Lord's Prayer

Pharaoh's Daughter Has Moses Brought to Her

Tea

The departure Platform Victoria Station

The Woman of Fashion (La Mondaine)

Noah's Sacrifice

Autumn on the Thames

The Taking of Jericho

The Wisdom of Solomon

Elijah carried away into heaven by a chariot of fire

Sarai Is Taken to Pharaoh's Palace

Abraham Sees Sodom in Flames

Español En el Louvre (L’Esthetique)

The Glory of Joseph

Caricature of Charles Darwin from Vanity Fair magazine

Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem

English An Interesting Story

Moses Slays an Egyptian

The Brazen Serpent

A Dandy

Pharaoh Notes the Importance of the Jewish People

on the river

Summer (also known as L'Ete)

Adam Is Tempted by Eve

Rebecca Meets Isaac by the Way

The Prophet Jonah

The Sermon on the Mount, illustration for 'The Life of Christ'

The Flight of the Prisoners

David danced before the Lord with all his might

Building the Ark

Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea

Kathleen Newton in the Garden

untitled (3972)

Abraham's Counsel to Sarai

The Golden Calf, as in Exodus

The Japanese Bath

The Widower

Mrs Newton with a Parasol

Joseph Sold Into Egypt

Mary Magdelane before Her Conversion

Etude

The Rod of Aaron Devours the Other Rods

An Interesting Story

The Daughter of Herodias Dancing

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Foreign Visitors at The Louvre

le printemps

Portrait of Mademoiselle L. L. (also known as Young Woman in a Red Jacket)

japonaise au bain

the traveller

The focus of the Com die Fra

The first man I saw

The Sojourn in Egypt

The Seven Trumpets of Jericho

Caricature of Matthew Arnold

The Women of Midian Led Captive by the Hebrews

Shem, Ham and Japheth

Reading the News

Moses

A Passing Storm

The Flight of the Spies

The Songs of Joy

Faust and Marguerite in the Garden

Louise

The Japanese Vase

Colonel Frederick Gustavus Barnaby

Portrait of Miss L.L. or Girl in a Red Jacket

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life. The Return

Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Seaside

Querelle d'amoureux

À la fenêtre

Gentleman In A Railway Carriage

The Letter

Behold He Standeth behind Our Wall

The Youth of Jesus, illustration for 'The Life of Christ'

Study of Cathlene Newton in a Thames Tavern

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life. The Departure

Jeune Femme A L'eventail

The Plague of Locusts

Afternoon Coffee

The Circle of the Rue Royale

The Gallery of the H.M.S. Calcutta

Spring Morning

Summer

Moses and the Ten Commandments

Abraham and the Three Angels

A Part of the Ancient Arch Called Ecce Homo

The Pharisee and the Publican

God Renews His Promises to Abraham

Reading a Story

Portrait de M. B

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: the Return

Boarding the Yacht

untitled (956)

A Passing Storm

The Ladies of the Cars

Goodbye, on the Mersey

Portrait of Kathleen Newton

Type of Beauty (also known as Kathleen Newton)

The Artist's Ladies

The Gathering of the Manna

Mrs. Newton with a Parasol

Unaccepted

A Luncheon

Trafalgar Tavern

The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: The Departure

Room Overlooking the Harbor

The Inn of the Three Ravens

Remembrance Ball on Board

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Young Lady in a Boat

In the Conservatory

A Girl in an Armchair

The Lost Drachma

La Femme Prehistorique

Promenade dans la Neige

The Captain's Daughter

In full sun

Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him

Portsmouth Dockyard (also known as How Happy I Could be with Either)

Hush! (also known as The Concert)

English Young Lady in a Boat

Study For The Prodigal Son In Modern Life. The Departure

The way

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects 1

The Grapes of Canaan

Woman at the window

Jacob Mourns His Son Joseph

Michal Despises David

Jesus at Bethany

Le veuf

Sovereigns No.10 Caricature of Napoleon III

The Prophet Joel

Partie Carree

Waiting for the Ferry 1

At The Louvre

The Sabbath Breaker Stoned

Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles

mavourneen

Goodby, on the Mersey

The Traveller

The concert

Caricature of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Caricature of Frederic Leighton

The Captain and the Mate

The Garden Bench

English On the Thames, A Heron

The Widower

Deuxieme frontispiece Assise sur le globe

Victorian book illustration

The Return from the Boating Trip

jeune femmea leventail

The Stairs

Capital from the Mosque of El Aksa

The Grotto of the Agony

Samson Slays a Thousand Men

Hush

Dans la serre

Jesus Ministered to by Angels

Joseph Reveals His Dream to His Brethren

Pharaoh and His Dead Son

Via Dolorosa

An Old Cistern

Holiday (also known as The Picnic)

Supposed Site of the Temple

A Widow

The Dead Bodies Carried Away

Convalescence

Caricature of Alexander Baillie Cochrane M.P.

Moses and Aaron Speak to the People

Le croquet

Caricature of Lionel Dawson Damer M.P.

The Return from the Boating Trip

Caricature of Anthony John Mundella

The Round Stone Seen from the Exterior

A Reclining Lady

Vicomtesse De Montmorand

the stairs

TA Reclining Lady

Too Early

Caricature of George Cavendish Bentinck

Quarrelling

Caricature of John George Dodson M.P.

Metal Ornament Taken from the Mosque of Es Sakra

The Tailor

Portrait of the Pilgrim

A Corner of the Village of Siloam

La convalescente

Statesmen No.940 Caricature of Alderman Andrew Lusk M.P.

The Ball on Shipboard

Site of the Antonia Tower

Quiet

A Corner of the Haram

Caricature of John Pender

Caricature of George Whyte Melville

the apparition

The Fireplace

Metal Ornament Taken from the Mosque of Es Sakra

Sovereigns No.60 Caricature of Pope Pius IX

The Round Stone Seen from the Interior

Orphan

The Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom

Marquise de Miramon

Spring

Statesmen No.920 Caricature of the Rt Hon Russell Gurney

Staircase of the Court, Haram

Rear of the Mosque of Omar

Going to Business (also known as Going to the City)

Jethro and Moses, as in Exodus 18

Joseph Converses With Judah, His Brother

Foreign Visitors at the Louvre

Metal Ornament Taken from the Mosque of Es Sakra

Statesmen No.1280

Nadab and Abihu are killed in the Tabernacle, Leviticus

By the Thames at Richmond

untitled (2484)

God's Curse

Caricature of Henry Cole

Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brethren

Inner Voices

Caricature of William Henry Gregory

Moses and Joshua In the Tabernacle

Moses Strikes the Rock

In an English Garden

a widow

Caricature of General Sir Frederick Paul Haines

Caricature of Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton

Moses Forbids the People to Follow Him

Transept of the Mosque of El Aksa

Adam and Eve Driven from Paradise

Dilke, Charles Wentworth

Caricature of James Delahunty M.P.

Joseph Interprets the Dreams While In Prison

Gleaners, as in Deuteronomy

Men of the Day No.580 Caricature of Mr.Thomas Mayne Reid

Sheep They Are Laid in the Grave

Statesmen No.910 Caricature of Mr John Locke M.P.

Statesmen No.930 Caricature of The Duke of Rutland

Abraham's Servant Meeteth Rebecca

Statesmen No.1310 Caricature of Sir Francis Goldsmid M.P.

Jacob's Body Is Taken to Canaan

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream

Pharaoh and the Midwives

Caricature of George William Pierrepont Bentinck M.P.

Nathan Rebukes David, as in 2 Samuel 120

Young Lady with a Fan

Moses Blesses Joshua Before the High Priest

Sovereigns No.40 Caricature of Alexander II of Russia

a lady in a black and white dress

Self-Portrait

Moses Destroys the Tables of the Ten Commandments

Sarai Sends Hagar Away

The Meeting of Esau and Jacob

Saul meets with Samuel

Jael Shows to Barak, Sisera Lying Dead

Sovereigns No.50 Caricature of Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey

la soeur ainee

untitled (1739)

Caricature of Henry William Eaton M.P.

Deborah Beneath the Palm Tree

The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies

Moses Speaks to Pharaoh

Caricature of Edward, Prince of Wales

Jacob Sees Esau Coming to Meet Him

Moses on the Mountain During the Battle, as in Exodus

The Death of Aaron

The Captain's Daughter

Going to the City

Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar

Reading a Book

Sovereigns No.70 Caricature of M Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

untitled

Portrait de M. N

Waiting

Isaac Bears the Wood for His Sacrifice

Judaic Ornament

Caricature of Mr George Leeman M.P.

The Chastisement of Uzzah

Joseph and His Brethren Welcomed by Pharaoh

Sovereigns No.30 Caricature of Leopold II of the Belgians

Moses Smiteth the Rock in the Desert

Caricature of William Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst

Judaic Ornament

Caricature of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet PC

Men of the Day No.4, The mob rule (Henri Rochefort)

Sea of Tiberias

Sovereigns No.20 Caricature of Isabella II of Spain

Sovereigns No.80 Caricature of The King of Prussi

Caricature of Percy William Doyle C.B.

Building the Tower of Babel

untitled (8156)

untitled (4213)

Abraham Guarding His Sacrifice

Statesmen No.1290 Caricature of The Rt Hon HBW Brand M.P.

untitled (8778)

untitled (9078)

untitled (9234)

untitled (9792)

untitled (3311)

untitled (313)

untitled (4720)

Portrait of M.N. Portait of Mrs. N. (Kathleen Newton)

Phoenician Capital

Journal

The Fire of Atonement

The Creation

The portico of the National Gallery London

Fountain of the Virgin at Ain Karim

Sarah Hears and Laughs

Type of Jew

Jew and Armenian

The Hammock

Portrait of Miss L.

Judaic Ornament (Rosette)

Type of Jew

The Summer

The Ark Passes Over the Jordan

Tombs In the Valley of Hinnom

Rubens Hat

Valley of Jehoshaphat

Armenians

An Armenian

Type of Jew

Vases of Judea

Balaam and the Ass, as in Numbers

Bezalel, as in Exodus 31

Type of Jew

Caricature of Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton

Type of Jew

Type of Jew

Le Foyer de la Comedie Francaise pendant le Siege de Paris

Entre les Deux Mon Coeur Balance

Isaac Feels Jacob as Rebekah

Caricature of Mr Lionel Lawson

Miriam Shut Out from the Camp

Promenade dans la Neige

le dimanche matin. sunday morning

Daniel in the Lion's

octobre

Portrait of M

Prophet Naum