James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern LoveFully illustrated and to accompany an exhibition, this book presents more than 100 paintings, prints and watercolours that represent every phase of Tissot's career. The authors explore his themes and interests and consider the influence on his work of Baudelaire's essay on the aesthetics of modernity. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
The Painter of Modern Love Malcolm Warner | 9 |
Catalogue | 21 |
Costume Pieces | 23 |
La Vie moderne | 35 |
Men of the | 51 |
On the Thames | 61 |
City Life | 71 |
In the Garden | 105 |
The Seasons | 121 |
Declarations of Love | 129 |
Parisiennes | 147 |
From Prodigal to Pilgrim | 163 |
Notes | 195 |
Chronology | 201 |
Bibliography | 203 |
Common terms and phrases
appears Art Purchased artist Ball on Shipboard Brooklyn Museum Burnaby Christ color composition costume created Degas depicted dress Edgar Degas Edmond de Goncourt English Etching and drypoint fashionable female Femme à Paris foreground French friends garden gaze gesture Getty Center girl Gouache Grosvenor Gallery illustrations J. J. Tissot Jacob Schiff James McNeill Whistler James Tissot Japanese Jewish Museum Kathleen Newton lady left Private collection London Visitors looks Louis Lamothe lower left Private lower margin lower right Exhibited lower right Private Marguerite Mary Misfeldt modern Musée Museum of Art Nemrod Oil on canvas organ grinder painter Parisian Parisienne perhaps picture plate popular portrait Prodigal red monogram stamp right Private collection Royal Academy Salon scene ship Signed and dated signed in pencil social story suggests symbol Thames theme Thomas Gibson Bowles Tissot painted Vanity Fair Victorian viewer watercolors Whistler William Eglinton women Yale York