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

abbey of Buillon, in the department of
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Doubs, France, when he died on the 8th of August 1902 . The merits of Tissot's Bible illustrations
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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 realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types .

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