{"id":190,"date":"2025-10-13T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husbands-paris.com\/en\/?p=190"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:16:03","slug":"tissot-the-cloth-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpadmin.husbands-paris.com\/en\/journal\/tissot-the-cloth-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"TISSOT, PASSION FOR FABRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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James Tissot is a XIXth century painter, often introduced as the fashion and elegance painter. Son of a textile shop owner and a milliner mother, the artist took a particular care for fabrics and colours rendering or garment details. A thoroughness betraying the influence of Flemish Primitives on his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist paints the Second French Empire\u2019s aristocracy and bourgeoisie, but his career extends on both sides of the Channel : probably the most English of French painters, and the most French of English painters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portrait of a dandy painter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Degas, a close friend, achieves in 1867 a portrait of James Tissot all dressed up : light grey wool flannel trousers, black shoes, long black coat, anthracite waistcoat, large black silk bowtie. On the table is placed a top hat. In short, the perfect attire of a gentleman from the second-half of the XIXth. Canvases and the easel are relegated to the background : the artist is represented far more as a dandy than as a painter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cercle de la rue Royale : a fashion illustration <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In his tableau The Circle of the Rue Royale, James Tissot delivers a synthesis of the Second French Empire men’s fashion. It is a group portrait painted in 1866, gathering twelve members of the Circle. Aristocrats wear a black garment that is standardizing : frock coat are shorter, the waist is more lose-fitted. Trousers, if not black, are striped or checked. Button boots, top hat and thin cane. Waistcoats allow for originality by their fabric or their pattern, but shirts are more minimalists, except for a long collar that can receive a bowtie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sole exception : Charles Haas, at the extreme right, is the only commoner in the scene. He wears a color and a garment that contrast. He will inspire Proust his character Charles Swann in his novel In Search of Lost Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TISSOT, James, Art. Le Cercle de la rue Royale. oil on canvas, 174,5 \u00d7 280 cm. 1866. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DEGAS, Edgar, art. Portrait de James Tissot. 1867-1868. oil on canvas. 151,4 \u00d7 111,8 cm. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TISSOT, James, art. Comte Etienne de Ganay in Le Cercle de la rue Royale. oil on canvas, 174,5 \u00d7 280 cm. 1866. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TISSOT, James, art. Comte de Ganay in Le Cercle de la rue Royale. 1866. oil on canvas, 174,5 \u00d7 280 cm. 1866. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TISSOT, James, art. Comte Julien de Rochechouart in Le Cercle de la rue Royale. oil on canvas, 174,5 \u00d7 280 cm. 1866. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TISSOT, James, art. Charles Haas in Le Cercle de la rue Royale. oil on canvas, 174,5 \u00d7 280 cm. 1866. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n