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JAMES JOSEPH JACQUES TISSOT (1836-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1016 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:JOSEPH JACQUES See also:TISSOT (1836-1902)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 15th of See also:October 1836 . He studied at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts in See also:Paris under See also:Ingres, See also:Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the See also:Salon for the first See also:time at the See also:age of twenty-three . In 1861 he showed "The See also:Meeting of See also:Faust and See also:Marguerite, " which was See also:purchased by the See also:state for the Luxembourg See also:Gallery . His first characteristic See also:period made him a painter of the charms of See also:women . Demimondaine would be more accurate as a description of the See also:series of studies which he called La Remme a Paris . He fought in the Franco-See also:German See also:War, and, falling under suspicion as a Communist, See also:left Paris for See also:London . Here he studied See also:etching with See also:Sir See also:Seymour See also:Haden, See also:drew caricatures for Vanity See also:Fair, and painted portraits as well as genre subjects . It was many years before he turned to the See also:chief labour of his career—the See also:production of a series of 700 See also:water-See also:colour drawings to illustrate the See also:life of See also:Christ and the Old Testament . Some sudden See also:shock or bereavement was said to have turned his thoughts from ideals of the cafe and the See also:boulevard into a more serious channel . He disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after a stay of some years in See also:England, and went to See also:Palestine . In 1895 the series of 350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in Paris, and the following See also:year found them on show in London . They were then published by the See also:firm of See also:Lemercier in Paris, who had paid him 1,1oo,000 francs for them .

After this he turned to the scenes of the Old Testament, upon which he was still engaged at the See also:

abbey of Buillon, in the See also:department of See also:Doubs, See also:France, when he died on the 8th of See also:August 1902 . The merits of See also:Tissot's See also:Bible illustrations See also:lay rather in the care with which he studied the details of scenery than in any quality of religious emotion . He seemed to aim, above all, at accuracy, and, in his figures, at a vivid See also:realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types .

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