James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat and satin-lined cape by his side, Tissot is surrounded by canvases that reflect the wide-ranging tastes he shared with Degas: an exotic, Japanese-style picture; scenes of contemporary leisure; and behind the easel, a sixteenth-or-seventeenth-century Venetian subject. At center, a copy after a portrait of Frederick the Wise in the Louvre, formerly attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, pays homage to Northern Renaissance art.
Artwork Details
- Title: James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
- Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1867–68
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 59 5/8 x 44 in. (151.4 x 111.8 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1939
- Object Number: 39.161
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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