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My book, The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot, is available through amazon.com. The ebook edition, illustrated with 17 full-color, high-resolution fine art images courtesy of The Bridgeman Art Library, is pictured at the right. Now available, a new paperback edition!
I began my blog by chronicling the early years of French painter James Tissot (1836-1902) and his friends Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Lourens Tadema (later Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912), and Tommy Bowles (Thomas Gibson Bowles, 1841-1922).
If you’ve read The Hammock and you’d like to learn more about the lives of the artists it portrays, see the index to my blog posts below. Together, they create a companion volume to The Hammock, sharing the true stories behind Tissot’s life, friends, and times, year by year, from his youth to his pre-war celebrity. Join me as I explore people and events prior to my novel’s opening in October 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Paris, and other topics related to James Tissot and his art.
With Tissot’s Self-Portrait (c. 1865) at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Read worldwide, my blog combines previous scholarship with original research and discussions of Tissot’s work in public collections and at auction. Learn sales prices and where you can find Tissot’s oil paintings in museums around the world, as well as stories of the celebrities, aristocrats, millionaires, and other colorful characters who have owned some of Tissot’s most famous oil paintings.
In October, 2018, I posted about a milestone:
The Hammock’s Six-Year Anniversary: Top Ten Tissot Posts (2012-2018) by Lucy Paquette
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Index
September 2012:
“I was a lazybones”: James Tissot’s youth, 1836 – 1855
On his own: Tissot as a Paris art student, 1855 — 1858
Becoming James: Tissot’s first Salon, 1859
Riding Coattails: Tissot’s earliest success, 1860 – 1861
October 2012:
London Début: Tissot explores a new art market, 1862
Reality Check: Tissot and the Salon des Réfuses, 1863
Modern Painter: Tissot’s Focus Shifts, 1864
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Paris c. 1865: The Giddy Life of Second Empire France
Ready and waiting: Tissot’s entrée, 1865
The competition: Tissot’s friends Whistler, Degas, Manet, Courbet, Alma-Tadema & Millais in 1866
November 2012:
In a class by himself: Tissot beyond the competition, 1866
“The three wonders of the world”: Tissot’s japonisme,1864-67
Degas’ portrait: Tissot, the man-about-town, 1867
The Bad Boys of the 1867 Paris International Exposition: Whistler, Manet & Courbet
On top of the world: Tissot, Millais & Alma-Tadema in 1867
December 2012:
“Chi-so”: Tissot teaches a brother of Japan’s last Shogun, 1868
The high life, 1868: Tissot, his villa & The Circle of the Rue Royale
Tissot and Manet attempt to help their friend Degas, 1868
Others in Tissot’s circle: Morisot, Courbet, Alma-Tadema, Whistler & Millais in 1868
January 2013:
James Tissot’s brilliant marketing tool, 1869
“Hurling towards the abyss”: The Second Empire, 1869
Friendship, love & quarrels: Tissot and his friends Degas, Manet & Morisot, 1869
1869: Tissot meets “the irresistible” Tommy Bowles, founder of British Vanity Fair
Of Snobbery, Death & Parlormaids: Millais, Alma-Tadema & Whistler, 1869
February 2013:
Tissot’s last Salon: Paris, 1870
Welcome to the Royal Academy Exhibition: London, 1870 (Part I)
Mrs. Grundy Objects: Millais at The Royal Academy Exhibition, London, 1870 (Part III)
The calm before the storm: Courbet & Tissot in Paris, January to June, 1870
“Napoleon is an idiot”: Courbet & the Fall of the Second Empire, 1870
March 2013:
James Tissot & Tommy Bowles Brave the Siege Together: October 1870
Courage & Cowardice: The Impressionists at War, 1870 (Part 1 of 2)
Courage & Cowardice: The Impressionists at War, 1870 (Part 2 of 2)
“The Future of French Art”: Henri Regnault (1843-1871)
April 2013:
James Tissot and The Artists’ Brigade, 1870-71
May 2013:
A spotlight on Tissot at the Met’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity”
Tissot vs. Whistler, Degas, Manet & Morisot oils at auction
James Tissot oils at auction: Seven favorites
Kathleen Newton by James Tissot: eight auctioned oil paintings
June 2013:
Tissot around the world: Canada
Tissot around the world: India, Japan, Australia & New Zealand
Who was Algernon Moses Marsden?
July 2013:
Tissot in the U.S.: The Midwest
Tissot in the U.K.: Cambridgeshire, Oxford & Bury St. Edmunds
August 2013:
Tissot in the U.S.: The Mid-Atlantic
Tissot in the U.K.: Bristol & Southampton
James Tissot’s garden idyll & Kathleen Newton’s death
September 2013:
James Tissot’s house at St. John’s Wood, London
Tissot in the U.S.: New England
Tissot in the U.K.: Northern England
October 2013:
For sale: In the Conservatory (Rivals), c. 1875, by James Tissot
Was Cecil Newton James Tissot’s son?
November 2013:
For sale: A Visit to the Yacht, c. 1873, by James Tissot
James Tissot the Collector: His works by Degas, Manet & Pissarro
December 2013:
Tissot’s La Femme à Paris series
January 2014:
February 2014:
Tissot in the U.K.: London, at The Geffrye & the Guildhall
Tissot in the U.K.: London, at the Tate
March 2014:
From Princess to Plutocrat: Tissot’s Patrons
Artistic intimates: Tissot’s patrons among his friends & colleagues
April 2014:
Was James Tissot a Plagiarist?
More “Plagiarists”: Tissot’s friends Manet, Degas, Whistler & Others
James Tissot Goes to the Museum
May 2014:
James Tissot in the Roaring ‘20s
Tissot’s Comeback in the 1930s
June 2014:
Girls to Float Your Boat, by James Tissot
James Tissot in the 1940s: La Mystérieuse is identified
July 2014:
James Tissot in the era of Abstract Expressionism
James Tissot and the Revival of Victorian Art in the 1960s
August 2014:
If only we’d bought James Tissot’s paintings in the 1970s!
James Tissot’s popularity boom in the 1980s
September 2014:
James Tissot in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
A visit to James Tissot’s house & Kathleen Newton’s grave
October 2014:
James Tissot’s “A Civic Procession” (c. 1879)
James Tissot’s “Miss Sydney Milner-Gibson” (c. 1872)
Celebrities & Millionaires Vie for Tissot’s Paintings in the 1990s
November 2014:
The Stars of Victorian Painting: Auction Prices
Belle Époque Portraits in Pastel by James Tissot
December 2014:
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Ladies of the Chariots”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Too Early”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Artists’ Wives”
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Ball on Shipboard”
January 2015:
Tissot in the new millenium: Museum Exhibitions
Tissot in the new millenium: Museum Acquisitions
Tissot in the new millennium: Oils at Auction
February 2015:
James Tissot’s Medieval Paintings, 1858-67
James Tissot’s Faust series, 1860-65
March 2015:
James Tissot’s Directoire series, 1868-71
April 2015:
Tissot and his Friends Clown Around
James Tissot’s Georgian Girls, c. 1872
May 2015:
James Tissot’s Weather Forecast
June 2015:
Tissot and Degas visit the Louvre, 1879
The Art of Waiting, by James Tissot
July 2015:
Tissot’s Brush with Impressionism
August 2015:
September 2015:
James Tissot and Alfred Stevens
October 2015:
The James Tissot Tour of Paris
November 2015:
What became of James Tissot and Alfred Stevens?
December 2015:
January 2016:
Victorians on the Move, by James Tissot
February 2016:
Tissot vs. Bouguereau: La sœur aînée (The Elder Sister)
March 2016:
Tissot in the U.S.: The Speed Museum, Kentucky
April 2016:
May 2016:
Oil paintings by James Tissot registered with the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP)
June 2016:
Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Aristocrats (1865 – 1868)
Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Officers, soldiers & sailors (1868 – 1883/85)
July 2016:
Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: The Casual Male (1871 – 1878)
Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Sportsmen & Servants (1874 – 1885)
August 2016:
Masculine Fashion, by James Tissot: Gentlemen & Rogues (1865 – 1879)
September 2016:
October 2016:
James Tissot’s Fashion Plates (1864-1878): A Guest Post for Mimi Matthews by Lucy Paquette
November 2016:
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “The Fan”
A Closer Look: The Circus Lover (The Amateur Circus), by James Tissot
December 2016:
Tissot’s Study for the family of the Marquis de Miramon (1865)
January 2017:
James Tissot’s Mourners at Auction
February 2017
A James Tissot Chronology, by Lucy Paquette for The Victorian Web
James Tissot (1836-1902): a brief biography by Lucy Paquette for The Victorian Web
March 2017
The Artist’s Closet: James Tissot’s Prop Costumes
April 2017
Tissot’s Tiger Skin: A Prominent Prop
Wicker: James Tissot’s Modern Prop Furniture
May 2017
A Proper British Prop: Tissot’s Tartan Blanket
June 2017
James Tissot’s Models à la Mode
July 2017
James Tissot’s Model and Muse, Kathleen Newton
August 2017
James Tissot: Portraits of the Artist
September 2017
The Company He Kept: James Tissot’s Friends
October 2017
The James Tissot Tour of Victorian England
November 2017
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Hush! (The Concert)”
December 2017
Tissot’s Study for “Young Women looking at Japanese Objects” (1869)
January 2018
A spotlight on Tissot at the Tate’s “The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London”
February 2018
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Quarrelling”
March 2018
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Algernon Moses Marsden”
April 2018
James Tissot, the painter art critics love to hate
May 2018
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Young Women Looking at Japanese Articles”
June 2018
James Tissot and the Pre-Raphaelites
July 2018
James Tissot’s Modern Paintings in Victorian England
August 2018
John Atkinson Grimshaw and James Tissot
September 2018
Tea and Tissot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 2018
The Hammock’s Six-Year Anniversary: Top Ten Tissot Posts (2012-2018) by Lucy Paquette
November 2018
December 2018
James Tissot and Two Ladies of Leisure
January 2019
February 2019
Portrait of the Pilgrim: James Tissot’s Reinvention (1885-1895)
March 2019
Portrait of the Pilgrim: “not necessary or advisable to start a controversy” (1896-1898)
April 2019
Portrait of the Pilgrim: “a dealer of genius” (1899-1900)
May 2019
A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Embarkation at Calais”
June 2019
Who was the Comtesse d’Yanville?
July 2019
On Holiday with James Tissot and Kathleen Newton in 1878, by Lucy Paquette for The Victorian Web
August 2019
Tissot’s Study for “Young Lady in a Boat”
September 2019
October 2019
James Tissot’s PrintsNovember 2019
James Tissot’s Prints at the Zimmerli Art Museum
December 2019
James Tissot: Fashion & Faith, a retrospective at the Legion of Honor
January 2020
James Tissot, the painter art critics still love to hate: a retrospective review round-up
February 2020
What happens at the Tissot Symposium…stays at the Tissot Symposium?
March 2020
“Berthe,” “Sunday Morning,” and “The Newspaper”
April 2020
Ten “missing” Tissot paintings that turned up
May 2020
Tissot’s Illustrations for Renée Mauperin (1884)
June 2020
The few images of people of color by the Impressionists and James Tissot
July 2020
“Tissot’s wartime sketchbook, 1870-71,” in The Burlington Magazine (July 2020)
August 2020
Lounging around with James Tissot
September 2020
James Tissot’s “Chrysanthemums” (1877)
October 2020
The Hammock 
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