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Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [ʒɑk ʒozɛf tiso]; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot (UK: / ˈ t ɪ s oʊ / TISS-oh, US: / t iː ˈ s oʊ / tee-SOH), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel canton of the Jura Mountains area. [2] The father and son team worked as a casemaker (Charles-Félicien Tissot) and watchmaker (Charles-Emile). His son having expressed an interest in watchmaking from a young ...
James Tissot, The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), 1876, Tate HMS Excellent, c.1860 James Tissot, Summer, 1876, Tate The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), also known as Officer and Ladies on Board HMS Calcutta, is an 1876 oil painting by the French artist James Tissot.
Holyday, later also known as The Picnic, is an oil painting by French painter James Tissot (1836–1902), painted in 1876. [1] [2] The composition is set in the artist’s garden in the wealthy north London suburb of St John’s Wood. [3] Tissot moved to England in the year 1871, when he was thirty five and settled there.
In the twentieth century, scholars usually situated Galateo among the courtesy books and conduct manuals that were very popular during the Renaissance. [4] In addition to Castiglione’s celebrated Courtier, other important Italian treatises and dialogues include Alessandro Piccolomini’s Moral institutione (1560), Luigi Cornaro’s Treatise on the Sober Life (1558-1565), and Stefano Guazzo ...
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Using a Taser on a child “could increase the risk of death or serious injury,” according to an instruction manual for the tool. The company does not have an exact count of how many Tasers are carried by school resource officers “because you’re talking thousands, and at some point you can’t even keep track of it,” said Steven Tuttle ...