James Tissot : Victorian Life of Modern Love

by Nancy Rose Marshall and Malcolm Warner

• ISBN13: 9780300081732
• ISBN10: 0300081731
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-10-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

James Tissot (1836-1902), the wry and urbane observer of manners and fashions, painted scenes from the life of "society" that simmered with undercurrents of sexual drama. Smiling at his characters' vanities and foibles, Tissot reveled in each detail of their finery, every sign of their savoir-faire. This beautifully illustrated book presents about a hundred paintings, prints, and watercolors that represent every phase of Tissot's career, including such signature paintings as The Ball on Shipboard, Hush! (The Concert), and London Visitors.

Nancy Marsh and Malcolm Warner explore Tissot's themes and interests and consider the influence on his work of Charles Baudelaire's brilliant essay on the aesthetics of modernity, Le Peintre de la vie moderne. The authors also examine how Tissot dealt with the ways of modern love and the forms they took in Paris and London in the later nineteenth century.

This book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Yale Center for British Art and the American Federation of Arts that runs at the Yale Center for British Art from Sep

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(9)
The Painter of Modern Love	9	(14)
Malcolm Warner
Catalogue
Nancy Rose Marshall
Costume Pieces	23	(12)
La Vie moderne	35	(16)
Men of the Age	51	(10)
On the Thames	61	(10)
City Life	71	(10)
On Shipboard	81	(16)
Social Graces	97	(8)
In the Garden	105	(16)
The Seasons	121	(8)
Declarations of Love	129	(18)
Parisiennes	147	(16)
From Prodigal to Pilgrim	163	(32)
Notes	195	(6)
Chronology	201	(2)
Bibliography	203	(3)
Authors' Acknowledgments	206