James Tissot

(1836–1902) fransk konstnär

James Tissot (France, 1836–1902) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, James Tissot belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

James Tissot was born in Nantes and died in Chenecey-Buillon. James Tissot trained at Lycée Saint-François-Xavier de Vannes and Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. James Tissot worked in Paris, London, and Ramsgate. Wikidata associates James Tissot with Japonisme and realism. James Tissot was awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.

The best-known works include ‘What Our Lord Saw from the Cross’, ‘Le Cercle de la rue Royale’, ‘The Shop Girl’, and ‘La Fortune (James Tissot)’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, figure, and genre art. The catalogue has 250 works by James Tissot with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1896. Works by James Tissot are held by several collections, among them Brooklyn Museum, Musée d’Orsay, Tate, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Adriano Cecioni, Eugène Delaplanche, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Władysław Malecki, and Henri Fantin-Latour.

• Impressionism
• The Shop Girl
• Le Cercle de la rue Royale
• The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)
• Portrait of Miss L. L.
• Holyday