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James Tissot

1836 - 1902

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Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [ʒɑk ʒozɛf tiso]; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot (UK: TISS-oh, US: tee-SOH), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Tissot is the 435th most popular painter (up from 463rd in 2019), the 1,339th most popular biography from France (up from 1,428th in 2019) and the 89th most popular French Painter.

James Tissot was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of biblical scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, James Tissot ranks 435 out of 2,023. Before him are Yves Tanguy, John Bauer, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Godfrey Kneller, Gino Severini, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. After him are Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Hannah Höch, Orcagna, Heinz Linge, Max Klinger, and Marie Laurencin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, James Tissot ranks 16. Before him are Ferdinand Cheval, Marie Henriette of Austria, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Władysław Tarnowski, Thomas Hill Green, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. After him are Jules Chéret, Hassan I of Morocco, Joseph Chamberlain, Princess Anna of Prussia, Jarosław Dąbrowski, and Nicholas of Japan. Among people deceased in 1902, James Tissot ranks 15. Before him are Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Ion Ivanovici, Ernst Schröder, and Victor D'Hondt. After him are Henryk Siemiradzki, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Abel, and Charles Dow.

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In France

Among people born in France, James Tissot ranks 1,339 out of 6,770. Before him are René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), François Fillon (1954), Jean de Joinville (1224), Georges Auric (1899), Odo the Great (650), and Georges Duby (1919). After him are Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543), Michel Butor (1926), Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), Élie Cartan (1869), Lazare Hoche (1768), and Jean-Claude Killy (1943).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, James Tissot ranks 89. Before him are Armand Guillaumin (1841), Albert Marquet (1875), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), Eva Gonzalès (1849), André Masson (1896), and Yves Tanguy (1900). After him are Marie Laurencin (1883), Hubert Robert (1733), François-Édouard Picot (1786), Jules Chéret (1836), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774).

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