creditline:"Gift of Mrs. Patrick Butler, by exchange"
On the Thames, A Heron
Anshutz on Anatomy
Autobiography (Broadside)
The Twilights Have the Softness of an Old Painting, from "Love"
Faun Uncovering a Woman
Save Valpo
Tigre dans les jungles (Tiger in the Jungle)
Peace Tatoo Repair
Young Girl
Benda Hua
Lìdximé
Girls Sliding
Number 15
Superficiality No. 1
Man with his Hands in his Coat
Throw Roses
Fog
Death Snips Proud Men
Swirl
Downtown V.I.
Bricklayer Love
White Shoulders
Moon Path
'Varie Pitture a Fresco de Principali Maestri Veneziani'
Seven Poems
Standing Violinist
Tod und Greis
Tod und KĂĽnstler
Tod und Paar (Tod bei Strucks)
Tod und Weib
Tod und JĂĽngling
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When James Tissot fled to England in 1871 as a political refugee following the Franco-Prussian war, he discovered that English suspicion of French painting technique and a preference for sentimental narrative would require him to adapt his work for the British market. In On the Thames, A Heron, one of his first English works, Tissot created a successful amalgam of these two aesthetics by serving up to British tastes his French technique wrapped in the sweet Victorian charm of beautiful young women boating on the Thames. Also presented here is the artist's full comprehension of the aesthetics of Japanese design in his use of a high vantage point and the juxtaposition of two separate pictorial elements in compressed space. Further the instantaneous realism and framing of the composition also suggests the influence of photography.