James Tissot
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Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a yo
Self-Portrait (1865), oil on canvas
Faust and Marguerite in the Garden, 1861
Still on Top, c. 1873. Note the two lower figures wearing a red Communard cap and a Japanese obi-style sash.
Sovereigns No. 8, Wilhelm I (Les mangeoit pour soi refraischir devant souper), 1871
The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta', also known as Officer and Ladies on Board HMS Calcutta, is an 1876 oil painting by the French artist James Tissot. It depicts two ladies in fashionable clothing and a yo
James Tissot
…relationships, while his idiosyncratic focus on women's fashion and society made an idealized female beauty a widespread commonality of his portraiture. Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (1876) was particularly noted for its use of body language and subtext in depicting a scandalous moment of flirtation between a married officer and a…
James Tissot, The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), 1876, Tate
HMS Excellent, c.1860
James Tissot, Summer, 1876, Tate
The Captain and the Mate, 1873