James Joseph Jacques Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... Charles Darwin 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ...

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Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three. In 1861 he showed The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite, which was purchased by the state for the Luxembourg Gallery. His first characteristic period made him a painter of the charms of women. Demi-mondaine would be more accurate as a description of the series of studies which he called La Remme a Paris. Image File history File links Description: La Partie carrée by James Tissot Source: Art Renewal Center License: File links The following pages link to this file: James Tissot ... Image File history File links Description: La Partie carrée by James Tissot Source: Art Renewal Center License: File links The following pages link to this file: James Tissot ... City motto: Favet Neptunus eunti. ... École des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world Paris is Frances capital and largest city, straddling the river Seine in the northern centre of its country. ... Ingres (pronounced ingress) is a commercially supported, open-source relational database management system. ... Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (March 23, 1809 - March 21, 1864), French painter, was born at Lyons. ... Salon may refer to: a room in a house used for receiving guests. ...

He fought in the Franco-German War, and, falling under suspicion as a Communist, left Paris for London. Here he studied etching with Sir Seymour Haden, drew caricatures for Vanity Fair, and painted portraits as well as genre subjects. Battle of Gravelotte Main article: Battle of Gravelotte Battle of Sedan Main article: Battle of Sedan The French were soundly defeated in several battles owing to the military superiority of the Prussian forces and their commanders. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London (see Wiktionary:London for the name in other languages) is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...

It was many years before he turned to the chief labor of his career - the production of a series of 700 water-color drawings to illustrate the life of Christ and the Old Testament. Some sudden shock or bereavement was said to have turned his thoughts from ideals of the cafe and the boulevard into a more serious channel. He disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after a stay of some years in England, and went to Palestine. In 1896 the series of 350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in Paris, and the following year found them on show in London. They were then published by the firm of Lemercier in Paris, who had paid him 1,100,000 francs for them. This page is about the title. ... Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh, but not Old Testament, because it does not recognize the concept of a New Testament. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ...

After this he turned to the scenes of the Old Testament, upon which he was still engaged at the abbey of Buillon, in the department of Doubs, France, when he died. Doubs is a département in eastern France named after the Doubs River. ...

The merits of Tissot's Bible illustrations lay rather in the care with which he studied the details of scenery than in any quality of religious emotion. He seemed to aim, above all, at accuracy, and, in his figures, at a vivid realism, which was far removed from the conventional treatment of sacred types.

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Detail of "Hide and Seek", 1877 Image File history File links Download high resolution version (733x789, 317 KB)Detail from Hide and Seek by James Tissot, c. ...

References

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