Tissot: The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836-1902 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Tissot: The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836-1902 Book

Tissot occupies a unique and ambivalent position in 19th-century painting. Born a Frenchman, he sought fame in England, and after a brilliant career as a society painter he turned late in life to religion. He set his glittering and minutely detailed scenes in elegant London ballrooms and conservatories and peopled them with chic young women in ravishing costumes, while at the same time investing them with a note of brooding melancholy. This became overwhelming in his many portraits of his mistress Kathleen Newton, and intensely romantic figure whom Tissot loved and painted obsessively until her tragically early death. Then, after returning to France, he experienced a dramatic religious conversion and devoted the rest of his life to spiritualism and illustrating the Bible, which brought him even greater fame.Read More

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  • 0297794752
  • 9780297794752
  • Christopher Wood
  • 13 October 1988
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
  • New edition
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