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Tissot, James
Tissot, James
Tissot, James (1836-1902). French painter and
graphic artist. Early in his career he painted historical costume pieces, but
in about 1864 he turned with great success to scenes of contemporary life,
usually involving fashionable women. Following his alleged involvement in the
turbulent events of the Paris Commune (1871) he took refuge in London, where he
lived from 1871 to 1882. He was just as successful there as he had been in
Paris and lived in some style in St John's Wood; 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, and around the
studio, a garden where, all day long, one can see a footman in silk stockings
brushing and shining the shrubbery leaves'.
His
pictures are distinguished most obviously by his love of painting women's
costumes: indeed, his work--which has a fashion-plate elegance and a
chocolate-box charm-- has probably been more often reproduced in works on the
history of costume than on the history of painting. He also, however, had a
gift for wittily observing nuances of social behavior. In 1882, following the
death of his mistress Kathleen Newton (the archetypal Tissot model-- beautiful
but rather vacant), he returned to France. In 1888 he underwent a religious
conversion when he went into a church to `catch the atmosphere for a picture',
and thereafter he devoted himself to religious subjects. He visited the Holy
Land in 1886-87 and in 1889, and his illustrations to the events of the Bible
were enormously popular, both in book form and when the original drawings were
exhibited.
For
many years after his death Tissot was considered a grossly vulgar artist, bug
there has been a recent upsurge of interest in him, expressed in sale-room
prices for his work as well as in numerous books and exhibitions devoted to
him.
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