Tissot, James (1836-1902) Portrait de jeune femme / Berthe (Portrait of a young woman / Berthe) c.1883 Graphite pencil, pastel and paper on canvas, 73 x 59 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Berthe (c.1883)
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Le Banc de Jardin (c.1882)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Banc de Jardin (The Garden Bench) c.1882 Oil on canvas Private collection
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…
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…
La Bohémienne endormie (1897)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Bohémienne endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy) 1897 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 200.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Portrait de Madame M. (c.1896)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de Madame M. (Portrait of Madame M.) c.1896 Oil on canvas, 198 x 114.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Amongst the many portraits painted by Rousseau, it is rare to find a full-length portrait and one of such a…
Portrait de femme (c.1895)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 105.5 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Brassaï, photo of Picasso in his studio at 23 rue La Boétie, standing in front of Rousseau’s Portrait of a…
La muse inspirant le poète (1909)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La muse inspirant le poète (The Muse Inspiring the Poet) 1909 Oil on canvas, 146.2 x 96.9 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel The portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire and his partner, the painter Marie Laurencin, is one of the most famous…