Tissot is famous for his exquisite paintings of beautiful English women and most people think he was English. In fact Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born in Nantes, then a thriving port on the Loire estuary in western France. He adopted the name James as an anglicised form when living in England. His friends were Manet and Degas, with whom he shared a teacher in the painting school in Paris.
[Oil on canvas]
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