Young Women Looking at Japanese Articles Oil Painting After James Tissot 35"

Description

Young Women Looking at Japanese Articles, late 20th century oil on canvas, After James Tissot. Frame in wood with gold finish.

James Tissot (1836-1902) was a French painter and illustrator whose work incorporated elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art. Tissot is best known for his genre paintings of European high society in the Belle Époque and Victorian England. His paintings often depicted fashionable women and society life, and he became known for his fascination with ruffles, ribbons, and ruching.

In 1866, thirty-year-old painter James Tissot bought land to build a villa on the most prestigious of Baron Haussmann’s grand new boulevards, the eleven-year-old avenue de l’Impératrice (now avenue Foch). By the Salon of 1868, Tissot had occupied his newly built mansion: the intriguing details in La Cheminée (The Fireplace, c. 1869, private collection) and L’escalier (The Staircase, 1869, private collection) almost certainly were painted from its opulent interior.

Tissot’s studio, a showcase for his renowned collection of Japanese art, became a landmark to see when touring Paris – and, for Tissot, it was a brilliant marketing tool to attract commissions. His collection of Japanese art and objets had grown to include a model of a Japanese ship, a Chinese shrine and hardwood table, and a Japanese black lacquered household altar, along with dozens of embroidered silk kimonos, Japanese dolls, folding screens and porcelains. In 1869, he assimilated these exotic items into elegant compositions in three similar paintings featuring young women looking at Japanese objects.

Condition

Very Good; Gently Used

Dimensions

26" x 3" x 35 1/2"; board 30 x 20"