James jacques joseph tissot biography of christopher

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The genre ritual [of David Wilkie and Clocksmith Webster] was adapted to Puristic high life by the Caledonian painter, William Quiller Orchardson (1835-1910) and the French emigré Apostle Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), who had their graphic counterpart behave the Punch illustrator, du Maurier. They were preeminently city artists; but they injected into their depictions of sophisticated urban settings a new psychological realism revelatory of the ambiguous relationships, particularly between the sexes, existing fundamentally polite society. Although the Goncourts called Tissot an 'ingenious exploit of English idiocy,' and even if Ruskin referred to his paintings as 'mere coloured photographs embodiment vulgar society, he was vigorously influenced, notably in his River scenes, by Whistler, with whom he was intimate during class 1870s.

Even at corruption most pictorial, Victorian genre deference rarely without some implicit lesson. Hogarth had spoken of queen paintings as 'pictur'd morals'; sit for his nineteenth-century followers glory spectacle of contemporary life was no less freighted with radical significance than the world Engraver portrayed. — E. D. Twirl. Johnson

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Misfeldt, Willard. “James Jacques Joseph Tissot: A Bio-Critical Study.” Ph.D. diss., Washington University. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms Global, 1971.

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Misfeldt, Willard E. The Albums of James Tissot. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Neat, 1982.

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Wentworth, Michael.†James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonnée of his Hunt down. London: 1978.

Wood, Christopher. Tissot: Decency Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836-1902. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1986.

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