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Jacques Joseph Tissot
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"All the City Was Gathered Together at the Door" 1899
"And he vanished out of their sight" 1899
"And sitting down they watched him there" 1899
"And they all forsook him and fled" 1899
"And they put his own raiment on him" 1899
"But no man laid hands upon Him" 1899
"Could ye not watch with me one hour?" 1899
"Ecce Homo!" 1899
"Eloi! Eloi! Lama Sabachthani!" 1899
"Feed my Sheep" 1899
"Get thee behind me, Satan!" 1899
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" 1899
"He laid his hands upon a few sick folk" 1899
"He that is of God hears God's words" 1899
"I thirst!" 1899
"It Is Finished" 1899
"Jesus turned and looked upon Peter" 1899
"Let Him be crucified" 1899
"Lord, I am not worthy" 1899
"My name is Legion" 1899
"My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death" 1899
"Peter went out and wept bitterly" 1899
"Philip, he that hath seen me hath seen the Father" 1899
"The Ax Laid Unto the Root of the Tree" 1899
"The cock crew" 1899
Name: James Tissot
Movement: Romanticism
Jacques Tissot was born in the port town of Nantes, France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English.
In 1885, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, which led him to spend the rest of his life making paintings about Biblical events. Many of his artist friends were skeptical about his conversion, as it conveniently coincided with the French Catholic revival, a reaction against the secular attitude of the French Third Republic. At a time when French artists were working in impressionism, pointillism, and heavy oil washes, Tissot was moving toward realism in his watercolors. To assist in his completion of biblical illustrations, Tissot traveled to the Middle East in 1886, 1889, and 1896 to make studies of the landscape and people. His series of 365 gouache (opaque watercolor) illustrations showing the life of Christ were shown to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences in Paris (1894–5), London (1896) and New York (1898–9), before being bought by the Brooklyn Museum in 1900. They were published in a French edition in 1896–7 and in an English one in 1897–8, bringing Tissot vast wealth and fame. During July 1894, Tissot was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's most prestigious medal. Tissot spent the last years of his life working on paintings of subjects from the Old Testament. Although he never completed the series, he exhibited 80 of these paintings in Paris in 1901 and engravings after them were published in 1904.
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