To cite this article: Paquette, Lucy. A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Quarrelling”. The Hammock. https://thehammocknovel.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/a-closer-look-at-tissots-quarrelling/. <Date viewed.>
It’s a rare thing to see a painting by James Tissot from a private collection. For this opportunity, I thank a lovely gentlemen I know from Twitter, who alerted me last fall that three of Tissot’s oil paintings were on temporary loan to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. I made the trip to see Quarrelling (c. 1874-76), The Bunch of Lilacs (1875), and Algernon Moses Marsden (1877).
In Quarrelling, which Tissot exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, a stylish couple stand in uncomfortable silence on opposite sides of one of the cast-iron columns in the graceful, curved colonnade that Tissot added to his garden at 17 (now 44), Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, around 1875. Copied from the colonnade in Parc Monceau in Paris, it became the backdrop for a number of Tissot’s paintings in the next few years.
Parc Monceau, Paris. (Photo by Lucy Paquette.)
Everything in this picture is beautiful – and beautifully painted: the man’s dapper beige lounge suit, his flamboyant tan and white leather spectator shoes, and his straw boater with its black band; the woman’s chic fur-trimmed ensemble, which Tissot used in other paintings, the slick black cast iron, the slightly broken surface of the ornamental pond, and the quietly rippling willow branches. Enjoy Tissot’s brushwork in the photographs below!
Stay tuned for another private viewing in my next post, “A Closer Look at Tissot’s Algernon Moses Marsden.”
As for The Bunch of Lilacs, one of my favorite of all Tissot’s oil paintings, this is what I found during my visit:
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Related Posts:
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Too Early”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Fan”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Ball on Shipboard”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Hush! (The Concert)”
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Exhibition note:
“The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870 – 1904),” November 2, 2017 – May 7, 2018.
Curator, Dr. Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Assistant Curator 1850-1915
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And see “James Tissot, the Englishman,” by Cyrille Sciama, Curator of the 19th century collections at the Musée d’arts de Nantes, in the exhibition catalogue.
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