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| Keywords: James Tissot - The Confessional - Walters 371374.jpg Tissot painted The Confessional during the first stage of his career before he left Paris and took up residence in London after the Commune in 1871 Although he was a friend of Courbet Manet and Degas his style shows very little of their influence His work is more descriptive than theirs and he focused exclusively on the upper echelons of society Tissot's women were the paradigm of contemporary feminine beauty and grace against which Degas later rebelled with his piercing analysis of dancers prostitutes and bathers Ostensibly a devotional image The Confessional reads more like a fashion plate The rich velvet of the woman's dress satin bow on her hat stiff lace cuffs and fine striped shawl with long fringe thrown over her shoulders show her to be a woman of class and refinement Only the linen handkerchief she holds in her right hand signals any remorse for the sins just confessed The confessional with its ornate moldings and carved floral decorations serves as a foil for the subject's sumptuous outfit Christopher Wood remarked that Tissot seemed less concerned with his sitters' religious sincerity than with her decorative quality C Wood Tissot London 1986 34 Tissot painted a variation on this theme which appeared on the art market in 1999 These works were made long before the artist's conversion to Catholicism in the 1880s and convey a fair amount of ennui if not irony 1867 watercolor with scraping gum heightening and graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper cm 26 4 14 4 accession number 37 1374 18952 William T Walters Baltimore January 14 1867 by commission George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1867 Tissot in red lower left recto partially trimmed; Tissot in graphite on the verso The Essence of Line James Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836-1902 A Retrospective Exhibition Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto; Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence 1968 A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 A Connoisseur's Portfolio French Masterworks on Paper The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1992 Botanical Delights Floral Motifs in 19th-Century Art Strathmore Hall Art Center North Bethesda; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Government House Annapolis 1998-1999 A Discerning Eye Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors Academy of the Arts Easton Easton 1998-1999 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Paintings by James Tissot 1867 Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Fringes Confessionals Confessions in art | ||||
