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
Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of
James Tissot
…career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé. Tissot served in the Franco-Prussian…
Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects by the painter James Tissot in 1869 is a representation of the popular curiosity about all Japanese items that started with the opening of the country in the Meiji Restoration of the 1860s.
Window of La Pagode (Paris), built in 1896
Commode (commode à vantaux) in the Louis XVI style, made in France, using Japanese lacquer panels, c. 1790, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Kakiemon teapot, an example of Japanese export porcelain, 1670–1690, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands