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Technique: Painted
Contemporary Italian Hand Colored Swallowtail Butterfly Print with Mirror Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water colored print representing a scarce swallowtail butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press call...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Italian 19th Century Big Size Florence Architectural Hand-Colored Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
A rare extra-large print, printed on engraving paper with an antique star press and watercolored by hand representing an antique capital. The capital's...
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1840s Italian Neoclassical Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Hand Painted Japanese "HIZEN" Vase Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Large art print of a Japanese "HIZEN" vase. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star press. Completely hand-colored by our skilled craf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Yellow and White Tulips Vase Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant and refined print representing a vase of flowers and, precicely, a vase of yellow and white tulips.
Four different vases prints are available to create a colorful compositi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Contemporary Italian Hand Colored Machaon Butterfly Print with Mirror Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water coloured print representing a Papilio Machaon butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press called "a Stella" and entirely hand water coloured by a skilled draftsman.
The frame is in tulipwood covered with polished edge mirror finished.
8 different butterflies available to create a bright composition.
Completely produced in Florence Italy by Artecornici design...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Contemporary Italian Hand Colored Butterfly Print with Mirror Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water coloured print representing a butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press called "a Stella" and entirely hand water coloured by a skilled draftsman.
The frame is in tuliper wood covered with polished edge mirror finished.
8 different butterflies available to create a bright composition.
Completely produced in Florence Italy by Artecornici design...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vatican Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Contemporary Italian Hand-Colored Silver-Washed Butterfly Print with MirrorFrame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water coloured print representing a silver-washed fritillary butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press called "a Stella" and entirely han...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Contemporary Italian Hand Water Colored Butterfly Print with Mirror Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water colored print representing a butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press called "a Stella" and entirely hand water colored by a skill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Blue China Vase Print with Black Frame 2 of 3
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Series of three prints representing 3 different ancient Chinese vases with a black patinated wooden frame, it is printed with an antique press and colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Blue China Vase Print with Black Frame 1 of 3
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Series of three prints representing 3 different ancient Chinese vases with a black patinated wooden frame, it is printed with an antique press and c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian Hand Painted Japanese "SATSUMA" Vase Print with Wooden Bamboo Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Extra Large Art Print of a Japanese "SATSUMA" vase. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star press.
Completely hand-coloured by our ski...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Chinoiserie Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian handmade Contemporary Graphic Limited and numbered edition
Located in Scandicci, Florence
From the "Habitat Collection" original limited and numbered edition of 100 pieces. Exclusive contemporary graphic printed by hand in two colors on a flat bed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Collection Manhattan Blooms "Number 3" 'Available Numbers 1-2-4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
From the "Habitat Collection" original limited and numbered edition of 100 pieces. Exclusive contemporary graphic printed by hand in two colors on a flat bed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Contemporary Italian Hand Painted Print with Gold Leaf and Mirror Frame 1 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Handcoloured print entirely made in Florence, Italy by master craftsmen using an antique press and artisanal paper and showing a pineapple. The stylish black mat has gold detailing. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Country Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Paper
Pair Rare Prints of Antique Carriages
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
ST/530 - Very rare French Horsemanships 1774-1775 engravings by the famous Diderot & D'Alembert Encyclopedie - Paris -
They are the only two engravings of carriages in the intere Enc...
Category
Late 18th Century French Other Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
$3,820 / set
Pair of Early 20th Century French Hand-Colored Bird Framed Prints by E. Guerin
By Guerin
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a office or study with this set of antique lithographs. Hand painted in France circa 1920 by E. Guerin, each print is set in the original gilt wood frame adding a touch of elegance and preserving the artwork. These framed illustrations showcasing detailed and vibrant depictions of birds perched on branches. The lithographs are expertly crafted, highlighting the intricate details of the birds and surrounding foliage. Guerin's work is known for its accuracy and artistic finesse, often used in botanical and ornithological studies of the time. These pieces reflect the era's appreciation for nature and artistry, making them valuable collectibles for enthusiasts of vintage illustrations and natural history.
Ernest Pierre Guerin (1887-1952) was a French artist born in Brittany; he educated at the Rennes School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Félix Lafond and Jules Ronsin. His work vividly depicted the customs and harsh realities of Breton life, drawing inspiration from the region’s landscapes, religious festivals, and traditional culture. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement and medieval illumination...
Category
Early 20th Century Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
"Godolphin" Heraldic Coat of Arms by "Catton's English Peerage", circa 1790
By Charles Catton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
"Catton's English Peerage" a copper engraved, hand colored heraldic coat of arms drawn by Charles Catton and engraved by Francis Chesham.
The mo...
Category
1790s English Georgian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper
Set of Three Itzchak Tarkay Serigraphs of Nudes
Located in Manhasset, NY
Set of three Itzchak Tarkay serigraphs of nudes. Each By Itzchak Tarkay who was born in 1935 at the Yugoslav-Hungarian border all are finely f...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
$1,800 / set
French Antique Lithograph in Gilt Frame 'La Douce Résistance'
By Louis Leopold Boilly
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Lithograph by Italian artist Salvatore Tresca (1750–1815) after an original painting by French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) of a work entitled 'La Douce...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Giltwood
Jerome Myers, Virginia Modeling, Hand-Colored Etching, Signed “Imp”, c. 1920
By Jerome Myers
Located in Morristown, NJ
Jerome Myers (American, 1867–1940)
"Virginia Modeling," ca. 1912–1920
Hand-colored etching on paper, pencil signed Jerome Myers imp. with pencil notation on the back left corner of VIRGINIA MODELING
Possibly an artist’s proof outside the edition of 50
Description:
An exceptional and intimate hand-colored etching by Jerome Myers, a foundational member of the Ashcan School and one of early 20th-century America’s most lyrical chroniclers of urban life. Virginia Modeling depicts Myers’s young daughter seated at a table forming a small clay figure beside a lush floral arrangement—a tender scene of childhood creativity rendered with the artist’s characteristic delicacy.
This composition is based on a 1912 preparatory drawing now held in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. The etching was created around 1920 and is hand-colored in subtle tones, likely by the artist himself or in collaboration with his wife, artist Ethel Myers. The work is pencil signed and marked imp, indicating that the artist printed or supervised the printing of this impression himself—suggesting a personal connection to this particular work.
Virginia Myers...
Category
1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Gio Ponti, Art Edition, the Planchart Coffee Table and a Set of Four Art Prints
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This numbered Art Edition of 1,000 copies (Hardcover book, 36 x 36 cm, 572 pages) is accompanied by an exclusive, square format reproduction of the Arlecchino coffee table designed b...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Painted Prints
Materials
Steel
Mid-19th Century General Abercrombie Gouache Print Framed
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Gouache artwork in gilt frame with antique glass, depicting General Abercrombie. Wonderful addition to a gallery wall.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Print Marina Candle Holder "Starfish" 3 of 3
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercolored print representing a sheffield candle holder with a Starfish hand-colored in light grey and pink nuance, Image reproduced from ancient and famous illustrations.
Images that representing the movement called Objets de Curiosité...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Three Antique Hand Colored Engravings of Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Three 18th century hand colored engravings of parrot specimens as depicted by Peter Brown, an artist and naturalist, working in London England. Originally published in 1776 in a foli...
Category
18th Century English British Colonial Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
$4,500 / set
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Print Marina Gold "Hipp Kuda", 4 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercolored print representing an Hippocampus Kuda in light blue nuance, Image reproduced from ancient and famous illustrations, with a simple gold squaring.
These prin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Stipple Engraving of "Shakspeare. / Measure for Measure / Act V, Scene I." 1796
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Stipple engraving of "SHAKSPEARE. / Measure For Measure / ACT V, SCENE I." England, 1796 by Thomas Kirk (English painter and printmaker, 1765-1797) and John Boydell (1720-1804) & Jos...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Kyle Morris Monoprint
Located in Sharon, CT
Kyle Morris unique 'Monotype', signed below right 'K.Morris' and titled below left 'Sympathy' in pencil. Plate size: 4 1/4"x11 1/2", Paper and Matte: 15 1/...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Painted Prints
Materials
Paint
Victorian 19thC. British Lithograph of "Horse Racing" Reverse Glass Matte C.1875
Located in Incline Village, NV
Wonderful polychromed lithograph under glass with reverse glass hand painted gold gilt rectangular double lined border, along with a hand painted black matte; unique; I have not seen...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Paper
Set of Four Eighteenth Century French Reverse Paintings on Glass after Pillement
Located in Essex, MA
Each in later bird’s-eye maple frames. Depicting farm animals and skaters on a pond, houses and people in daily pursuits along a waterway.
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Glass
Italian Contemporary "Gladiolus" Black Print with Black Wood Frame 1 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercoloured Botanical "Gladiolus" printed on aged paper and accompanied by a beautiful frame made of carved bamboo style black wood.
Dimensions without passpartout: 2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian Contemporary Botanical Black Print "Shell n.3" Black Mirror Wood Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercoloured shell made by engraving on silver leaf, printed on aged paper and accompanied by a beautiful frame made of black mirrors and silver-painted wood.
This bot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Paper
1984s Limited Edition Serigraphy 'Night People I' by Italian Giancarlo Impiglia
Located in North Miami, FL
1984s limited edition framed serigraphy 'Night People I' by Italian artist Giancarlo Impiglia, United States
By: Giancarlo Impiglia
Material: metal, wood, paint, acrylic, paper
Tech...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical "Crinum Gigantum" 2 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Print from the Collection Botanique representing Crinum Gigantum.
Another different Crinum prints are available to create a colourful composition. Crinum Erubescens.
print measure: ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical "Crinum Erubescens" 1 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Print from the Collection Botanique representing Crinum Erubescens.
Another different Crinum prints are available to create a colourful composition. Crinum Gigantum.
print measure:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted "Madre Selva" Parfume Blue Gold Print 2 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-pressed print representing representing vintage bottles of perfume marketed and produced by the ancient firm H. Roberts and C. In this one we find the parfume called ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted "Mistica" Parfume Blue Gold Print 3 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-pressed print representing representing vintage bottles of perfume marketed and produced by the ancient firm H. Roberts and C. In this one we find the parfume called ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted "Claire de Lune" Parfume Blue Print 1 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-pressed print representing representing vintage bottles of perfume marketed and produced by the ancient firm H. Roberts and C. In this one we find the parfume called ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted "Reve de Florence" Parfume Blue Print 4 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-pressed print representing representing vintage bottles of perfume marketed and produced by the ancient firm H. Roberts and C. In this one we find the parfume called ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Yellow and White Tulips Vase Big Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant and refined print representing a vase of flowers and, precicely, a vase of yellow and white tulips.
Four different vases prints are available to create a colorful compositi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
J.S. Prout, 'Diggers on the Road .', Hand Colored Engraving, U.K., C.1874
Located in Chatham, ON
JOHN SKINNER PROUT (1805-1876) - 'Diggers on the Road to a Rush' - Antique steel plate engraving after a painting by J. S. Prout - from 'Australia' by Edwin Carton Booth - hand color...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Colored Faunistic Print Representing Tiger and Jaguar
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Print from a Collection of three faunistic prints:
- Tiger an Jaguar
- Elephant
- Giraffe
Printed manually on 100% cotton engraving paper in Florence Italy.
Each print is entir...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian 19th Century Big Size Florence Architectural Hand-Colored Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
"Cammino - Casa nel Chiasso dei Davanzati"
A rare extra-large print, printed on engraving paper with an antique star press and watercolored by hand representing an antique firepla...
Category
1840s Italian Neoclassical Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Blue Grey and White Hand Painted Japanese "HIZEN" Vases Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Large art print of three Japanese "HIZEN" vases with shades of blue, grey and white. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star press. Co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Blue Grey And Yellow Hand Painted Japanese "HIZEN" Vases Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Large art print of three Japanese "HIZEN" vases with shades of blue, grey and yellow. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star press. C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Blue Grey and White Hand Painted Japanese Satsuma Vases and Plate Print
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Large art print of two Japanese "HIZEN" vases and a plate with shades of blue, grey and white. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Contemporary Italian HandColored Poplar Admiral Butterfly Print with MirrorFrame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water colored print representing a poplar admiral butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancient press called "a Stella" and entirely hand water colored by a skilled draftsman.
The frame is in tulipwood covered with polished edge mirror finished.
8 different butterflies available to create a bright composition.
Completely produced in Florence Italy by Artecornici design...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Contemporary Italian Hand Colored Polydamas Butterfly Print with Mirror Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Artistic decorative hand water coloured print representing a Battus Polydamas butterfly, also known as the gold rim swallowtail butterfly.
This print has been pressed with an ancien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vatican Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Paper, Wood
Contemporary Italian Golden Shells Print, Gilded Wood Frame with Mirror '4 of 4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-colored print representing two golden shells. The handcrafted frame is in gilded wood with mirror inserts. This print is made with a special technique called giclée. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Paper
Italian Provencal French Style Architecture Hand Painted Print '2 of 4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant and refined print representing French architecture and, precisely, a Maison de medecin in Pontonx-sur-l'Adour, a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Toget...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian French Provincial Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Provencal French Style Architecture Hand Painted Print '1 of 4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant and refined print representing French architecture and, precisely, a house in Billancourt, a commune in the Somme department in Northern France. Together with the other three...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian French Provincial Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
"La Pleine Vendange", French Grape Harvest-Hand Watercolored
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This vintage print "La Pleine Vendange" or "The Full Harvest" is hand watercolored and depicts the harvesting of grapes in France. It is in a solid black and gold frame.
Width-24.5"
...
Category
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Painted Prints
Materials
Paper, Wood
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Contemporary Hand Colored Palm Print with Round Wooden Frame 2 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
One of four hand watercolored and press printed botanical print with black wooden frame.
Each print is entirely printed and colored in Italy by our mastercraftsmen.
The complete set ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Contemporary Italian Handcolored Print with Handmade Black Glass Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Large cockatoo print entirely handcolored in Italy and hand printed with an antique press. Deep green mat with gold detailing. Art frame with gold leaf b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Country Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Collection Manhattan Blooms "Number 2" 'Available Numbers 1-3-4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
From the "Habitat Collection" original limited and numbered edition of 100 pieces. Exclusive contemporary graphic printed by hand in two colors on a flatbed press and finished with a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Collection Manhattan Blooms "Number 1" 'Available Numbers 2-3-4'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
From the "Habitat Collection" original limited and numbered edition of 100 pieces. Exclusive contemporary graphic printed by hand in two colors on a flatbed press and finished with a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Collection Manhattan Blooms "Number 4" 'Available Numbers 1-2-3'
Located in Scandicci, Florence
From the "Habitat Collection" original limited and numbered edition of 100 pieces. Exclusive contemporary graphic printed by hand in two colors on a flat bed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Painted Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Limited Edition Lithograph in Custom Frame by Lowell Nesbitt, White Rose, 1981
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
White Rose, circa 1981
Limited edition # 124 / 200
Artist-signed and numbered
Measures: 34.5" x 34.5" framed
Vintage contemporary art colored lithog...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper, Wood
James Jacques Joseph Tissot "Soirée d'été" 'Summer Evening' Etching & Dry Point
By James Tissot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French 19th century etching and drypoint Titled "Soirée d'été" (Summer Evening) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) depicting Mrs. Kathleen Newton resting on a lounge chair. Signed and dated (l/l): J.J. Tissot, 1881 in the plate. Under the mat, the front of the sheet inscribed in pencil with a '1' in a circle, the verso of the sheet with old price inscription "450-" in pencil. Circa: 1881-1882.
Measures: Plate Height: 9 inches (22.9 cm)
Plate Width: 15 1/2 inches (39.4 cm)
Sheet Height: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Sheet Width: 20 5/8 inches (52.4 cm)
Frame Height: 19 inches (48.3 cm)
Frame Width: 24 1/2 inches (62.2 cm)
Frame Depth: 1 1/8 inches (2.9 cm)
Literature:
Wentworth 56. Note: Tissot's from 1881 is said to depict his lover, the Irish divorcee Mrs. Kathleen Newton, resting on a lounge chair.
Provenance:
Private collection, Los Angeles, California
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible.
Jacques Tissot was born in the city of Nantes in France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English.
In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Lamothe provided the majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet.
In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter Von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings.
Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart.
In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored Japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall.
Still on Top, 1873
Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defense of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. His 1870 painting La Partie Carrée (The Foursome) evoked the period of the French revolution. Either because of the radical political associations related to the Paris Commune (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871. During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques. Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London. Tissot used...
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Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$4,985 Sale Price
22% Off
Don Dolan "Rosie Afraid" Monoprint, circa 1980
Located in San Francisco, CA
Don Dolan "Rosie Afraid" Monoprint, circa 1980
Fine original monoprint by Don Dolan. The title is "Rosie Afraid" and we all wonder what scares Rosie. She ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Painted Prints
Materials
Paper
19th C. American - A Framed Set of 13 Hand Colored Alphabet Woodcut Prints N-Z
Located in Morristown, NJ
A framed set of 13 pages from "The Lu Lu Alphabet", a chapbook from 1851 published by Samuel Ragnot, NYC. This set comprises the letters N through Z, each with a short rhyming descri...
Category
1850s American Victorian Antique Painted Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
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