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JAMES TISSOT ~ IMAGINATION

7 June 2015

Summer, 1878, James Tissot.

“It is imagination that inflames the passions by painting in a fascinating or terrible fashion an object which impresses us.”

James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)

Study for (also known as Woman in an Interior)

James Tissot – circa 1883-1885

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)

“Holiday” c1876

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