jumperandscarf: Young ladies admiring Japanese objects James…
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
Young ladies admiring Japanese objects
James Tissot
As I previously mentioned, I loved seeing the middle of these three paintings at the Getty Museum in L.A. several months ago. Tissot painted all three paintings in 1869. They were among the last he did in Paris. Within two years he had fled Paris for London, renamed himself from Jacques to James, and met and begun painting Kathleen Newton.
More about Tissot’s use of Japanese art and objects to promote himself during the late Paris years is in this blog post by Lucy Pacquette: James Tissot’s brilliant marketing tool, 1869.
Pacquette has written a book, The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot. Guess what I’m downloading to my e-reader as we speak?
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/60150152996.
