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Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich
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Tissot's depiction focuses on the view from a dining table out through a öppning of a riverside London tavern. Here, from one of the jutting bukter, other patrons can be seen in an adjacent balcony and below children play on the foreshore of the River Thames. He first exhibited the etching simultaneously in at two London venues, the Dudley galleri and the Grosvenor galleri. The former was his preferred venue for exhibiting his prints from onwards. The etching was singled out bygd a critic from the weekly newspaper "Athenaeum" who described it as a "remarkable del av helhet of draughtsmanship, the foreshortening of the old balcony being excellent."
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Title:Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich
Artist:James Tissot (French, Nantes – Chenecey-Buillon)
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James Tissot
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Le Portique de la Galerie Nationale à Londres
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- Plate: x cm (15 x 8 5/16 inches)
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Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund
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James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French:[ʒɑkʒozɛftiso]; 15 October – 8 August ), better known as James Tissot (UK: TISS-oh, US: tee-SOH), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé.
Tissot served in the Franco-Prussian War on the side of France and later the Paris Commune. In he moved to London, where he found further success as an artist and began a relationship w