Born Jacques-Joseph Tissot in France (1836-1902), better known as “James”, the artist spent many years in ... "Histoire ennuyeuse" repeats the theme of "An Interesting Story" , thought this time the ...

Sunday Morning, James Tissot, 1883, etching and drypoint on ... You see a lot of complications and tensions [in his work]. He’s a more interesting figure because he’s hard to read.” ...

The 19th-century French painter James Tissot may be the greatest artist many people know next to nothing about. Despite being a successful international art-star in his day, and his friendships with ...

A contemporary of the Impressionists, the late 19th-century society painter James Tissot (1836-1902) is remembered best for capturing the more mundane aspects of fashionable company: ladies ...

There is an 1881 print by the French artist James Tissot now showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto that depicts a fashionable woman relaxing in a garden on a summer evening. Her dreamy ...

French painter James Tissot (1836-1910) had a different idea. He did not go as far as filmmakers Martin Scorcese or Mel Gibson, perhaps, but he visited the Holy Land and re-imagined Christ as a ...

From their vantage point they literally dominate Paris. James Tissot (1836-1902) captured the elegance and confidence of the French ruling class, from the toes of their well-polished shoes to ...

But James protested too much. Dissecting social convention through anecdotes of fashion and flirtation, with jewel-like, minute descriptive qualities, Tissot’s oddly angled, disorienting close ...