Tag: Art

Petit Palais (Paris)

Opened: 1900 Address: Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, France Website: https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: • Museums…

Summer (1876)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Summer (‘Portrait’) 1876 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London James Tissot is deliberately ambiguous here, inviting us to interpret it. His model, Miss Lloyd, stands at the entrance of a billiards’ room, a space…

Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth (c.1876)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth (Gallery of HMS Calcutta) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.8 cm Tate Britain, London Tissot often painted a man with two women in order to explore the subtle nuances of flirtation…

La Fille du capitaine (1873)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) La Fille du capitaine (The Captain’s Daughter) 1873 Oil on canvas, 72.3 x 104.8 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Tissot began his career exhibiting historic subjects at the Paris Salon but during the 1860s turned to scenes…

Southampton City Art Gallery

Built: 1930 Address: Civic Centre, Commercial Rd, Southampton SO14 7LY Website: https://southamptoncityartgallery.com/ Collection: • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): L’église de Vétheuil (1880) • Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903): Vue depuis la route de Versailles, Louveciennes (1870) • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899): Allée de châtaigniers…

L’Annonciation (1886-1894)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Annonciation (The Annunciation) 1886–1894 Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 17 x 21.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York According to Luke, an angel appeared to Mary and announced that she would bear the Son of God.…

Brooklyn Museum (New York)

Opened: 1895 Location: 200 Eastern Pkwy, New York, NY 11238 Website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See…

Cache-cache (c.1877)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Cache-cache (Hide and Seek) c.1877 Oil on wood, 73.4 x 53.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In early 1874 Degas wrote, “Look here, my dear Tissot. . . you positively must exhibit at the Boulevard [in the…