Jacques Joseph Tissot was born in 1836 in Nantes, France into the family of a merchant. In c. 1856-57 he came to Paris with the desire to become a painter. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts) and studied in the studios of Ingres and Flandrin. Much of his education, though, Tissot received informally, through friends and acquaintances among avant-garde artists and writers. Among his influential contacts were Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and James McNeill Whistler. The latter evidently had a strong impression on the young artist, shortly after meeting Whistler Tissot anglicized his first name to "James". He was a close friend of Degas; Degas painted an interesting portrait of Tissot. But they later quarreled, and Tissot refused to participate in the Impressionists exhibitions.
c.1861. Oil on canvas. 50.2 x 75.5 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
1863. Oil on canvas. 210 x 136 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1869. Oil on canvas. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA.
1870. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
1871-72. Oil on canvas. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
1873. Oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK.
1873. Oil on canvas. 53.5 x 76 cm. Private collection.
1873. Oil on canvas. Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, NY, USA.
1873. Oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK.
1874. Oil on canvas. 84 x 129.5 cm. Tate Gallery, London, UK.
c.1874. Oil on canvas. 160 x 114 cm. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA.
c.1875. Oil on canvas. 119.2 x 76.7 cm. Private collection.
c.1875-6. Oil on canvas. Sheffields Galleries and Museums Trust, Sheffield, UK.
c.1881. Oil on canvas. 27 x 36 cm. Private collection.
. Oil on canvas. 34 x 59 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
. Oil on canvas. 90 x 50 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
James Tissot: Victorian Life / Modern Love by Nancy Rose Marshall, Malcolm Warner; Yale Center for British Art, 1999
James Tissot by James Jacques Joseph Tissot; Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery.
James Tissot by Michael Wentworth; Clarendon Press; 1989.
James Tissot by Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz (Editor); Abbeville Press, Inc.; 1985.
Victorian Painting by Christopher Wood. Bulfinch Press, 2000.
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn. Princeton Univ Pr, 2000.
The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood. Seven Dials, 2001.
Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot (Studies in British Art, 6) by Katharine Lochnan (Editor). Yale Univ Pr, 1999.
The Albums of James Tissot by Willard E. Misfeldt. Popular Press, 1982.