James jacques joseph tissot biography definition
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James Tissot’s career spanned three successful periods: his early years in Paris (1859-1870), his business-like decade in London (1871-1882), and his later years in France and the Holy Land (1883-85), depicting fashionable women of Belle Époque Paris and making research trips for his series of Bible illustrations.
Born Jacques Joseph Tissot, his parents were self-made, prosperous merchants in the textile and fashion industry in the bustling seaport of Nantes.
James jacques joseph tissot biography definition
Jacques moved to Paris in 1856 to study painting and made his dÈbut at the Salon three years later, as James Tissot. Tissot and his painting, Le Recontre†de Faust et de Marguerite (The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite) attracted the attention of the Comte de Nieuwerkerke, Director-General of Museums, who purchased the painting in 1860 on behalf of the government for the Luxembourg Museum for 5,000 francs.
The provincial young painter achieved Establishment acceptance far sooner than his struggling