“Joseph Reveals His Dream to His Brethren” by James Tissot
“Joseph Reveals His Dream to His Brethren” by James Tissot
Bible Illustrations by James Tissot
- Artist: James Tissot
- Year: 1836-1902
- Medium: gouache on board,
- Dimensions 6 15/16 x 7 3/8 in. (17.6 x 18.7 cm) to 8 7/8 x 12 7/16 in. (22.6 x 31.6 cm)
- Museum: Jewish Museum, New York
“The Plague of Locusts” by James Tissot
“The Plague of Locusts” by James Tissot
“Moses Speaks to Pharaoh” by James Tissot
“Moses Speaks to Pharaoh” by James Tissot
The Plague of Flies
The Plague of Flies
Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brethren
Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brethren
James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836 – 1902), anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter in Paris before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women.
He knew James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas, but turned away from Impressionism and focused mainly on portraits and genre paintings of the Victorian upper classes in a more polished academic style. Tissot depicted his subjects with almost photographic realism. He also developed a reputation for composing ambiguous narratives that hinted at risqué behavior among the wealthy classes and the boundaries of propriety.
Late in his career, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, which led him to spend the last fifteen years of his life painting Biblical events. At a time when French artists were working in impressionism, pointillism, and heavy oil washes, Tissot was moving toward realism in his watercolors.
To assist in his completion of biblical illustrations, Tissot traveled to the Middle East in the late 1880s to make studies of the landscape and people.
James Tissot
- Name: Jacques Joseph Tissot
- Born: 1836, Nantes, France
- Died: 1902 (aged 65), Chenecey-Buillon, France
- Nationality: French
- Notable works:
- Flirtation and Attraction by James Tissot
- The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- October
- Fashion Parade by James Tissot
- The Ball
- Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects
- A Woman of Ambition
- The Life of Christ by James Tissot
- Crucifixion, seen from the Cross
- Jesus Found in the Temple
- Jesus Wept
- Self-Portrait by James Tissot
- Bible Illustrations by James Tissot
- Flirtation and Attraction by James Tissot
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“There is something of the human soul in his work, and that is why he is great, immense, infinite.”
– Vincent van Gogh on James Tissot
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Photo Credit: 1) James Tissot [Public domain]
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