What is the price of a show is often its power of resurrection. The large retrospective that the musée d'orsay is dedicated to James Tissot (1836-1902) could well devote an amazement : that which is born of the rediscovery of the route of this mutant to the palette. Born in the fumes of the romantic ending, this surgeon from an affluent family continued to fly in style in style, with a force of transformation which anticipates the great painters to periods of the Twentieth century, including Picasso remained the paragon. Tissot is without doubt the only French artist from this period to have triomp...

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Tate, London, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Tate Photography – Fine art images/Heritage images/al.Christophel – Jerry Hardman-Jones – Courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI

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