Seductive but slick, are James Tissot's paintings more complex than they seem? This is what the Musée d'Orsay exhibition intends to demonstrate.
James Tissot (1836-1902), London Visitors, 1874, oil on canvas, 160 x 114,3 cm, The Toledo Museum of Art.
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Admired in his time for his calm, composed painting, James Tissot (1836-1902) subsequently suffered from a long period of disenchantment for the very reasons that made him so popular. "At the last retrospective devoted to the artist at the Petit Palais in Paris, in 1985, the reviews were vicious," says Paul Perrin, curator at the Musée d’Orsay and co-curator of the exhibition. It took until the early 2010s for people to come to terms…
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