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A FAMOUS AVTHTRECOLLECTIONS OF M. TIS80T.Our Par.* cox respondent write*:—James Tisaot, the pictorial artist, died In harness, his OKI Testament Scenes and Events” not being terminated, though 330 water-color dm rings taken from it filled a room at the last Salon. Tisaot. In ISM. left Nantes, his birthplace, at the ag* of 18. to study art under Ingres and Flandrin. a relig.ous painter, who had then a great vogue. He acquired from the former a dryness of style that became mure apparent as he advanced in life. In working with Flandrin in painting the robes, palms, wing* of saints, martyrs, and angel*. he made clerical acquaintance* vaiuaole to him in after life. Ingres had a h.gh sense of the beautiful. Tissol hardly ever rose In that direction above a sense of prett.ueaa. one sees how wall he succeeded In rendering the prettiness of an ingenuous girl in his Meeting of Faust and Margberita. in the Luxembourg. Tisso: went to bndon In 1»7. and remained there ten years. He sup-plled French illustrated Journals with elaborately-executed drawings of English sights and scene*, and filled portifolios with water-color sketches which have not yet got into the picture market. On hi* return he took a house near the Avenue do Bois de Boulogne, which, in the English way. he covered with creepers. He »t tempted there to revive port rat t-palnt-ng in colored wax. as practised by the Homans in Egypt in the early cjatartes of the Christian era. He also took up the arts of enamelling metal*, of carving statuett* in box-wood, of modelling It* terra-cotta, of painting glass for windows, of orfevrer.e. and. in short, covered t.*» wide a surface to succeed In anything. HI* exhibition, however, of his London sketches and of large Parisian scenes In black and white proved a hit He brought out there a scene he had witnessed In an official salon, the entrance of Madame •aatbercau. la plus belle femme Ae Paris.” She advances between two flies of admirers, who seem to offer her an idolatrous worship, not. however, quite devoid of irony.Timot then went at the suggestion of a priest with whom he had become accounted at FlanJrin'a. to work in the Holy Land. Father Dtdon In’.ended to go there to gather impressions for a life of Jesus. If Tissot could become the illustrator of Father Didon's work, he and the author would naturally place each other on a pedestal. Tlssot went, and worked in the realistic spirit. Trusting to :he Immutability of the Kan, he set down Jesus in the exact sites he sketched, and amid the people that he himself saw. A* he knew little history, and had not much imagination, he could not evoke a Palestine inhabited by industrious Jews. Greek rolonista. Roman adminis.raiora. soldiers, and auxiliaries: a Palestine in which boasted of superb cities. Roman and Herodeun. and in which the luxurious Cleopatra did not disdain to sojourn. Tis-sot intended to set right the great artists •f the Middle Ages ami the Renaissance. He flattered himself on having lighted on the real truth so far as the surrounding* •f Jesus went. He omlttej no detail that could be adduced as circumstantial evidence of the existence of the Saviour as given In the Gospels and traditional lore. The authenticity of the sites conflicted in bis illustrations in water-color* touched up with gouache with the legends he had to represent.It would have been much better to Indicate vaguely deta.ls of Oriental life than them minutely, and thus clog
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Warragul West Gippsland Gazette
Warragul, Victoria, AU
Tue, Oct 07, 1902
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