The Birth of Jacob and Esau (Jacob and Esau presented to Isaac). c1796. Oil on canvas. 72 x 101 ins. War Memorial Chapel, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Phillip Medhurst
Wisdom from a Gnostic Sage
Tag: Bible
Image | May 27, 2022
Isaac’s servant trying the bracelet on Rebekah’s arm. 1775. Oil on canvas. Height: 124 cms (48.82 ins), Width: 160 cms (62.99 ins). Yale Center for British Art, U.S.A.
Image | May 27, 2022
The Call of Abraham going to sacrifice his son Isaac. c1799. Oil on canvas. 20 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches. Wichita Art Museum. It is likely that this painting was commissioned by William Beckford for Fonthill Abbey. Beckford’s financial reverses in 1823 resulted in the auction of the Fonthill art collection which included this painting […]
Image | May 26, 2022
Hagar and Ishmael. 1776, reworked 1803. Oil on canvas. 76 x 54 1/2 ins (193 x 138.4 cms). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Image | May 26, 2022
Noah and his Family sacrificing. c1801 (unfinished). c1800. Oil on canvas. 72 x 138 ins (182.9 x 350.5 cms). The San Antonio Museum of Art.
Image | May 26, 2022
The Deluge. 1791. Location of completed painting currently unknown. Sketch: 1790. Oil on canvas. Frame: 25 3/8 x 35 1/16 ins (64.4 x 89 cms); image: 19 1/8 x 28 3/4 ins (48.5 x 73 cms). The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Image | May 26, 2022
The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. 1791. Oil on canvas. Height: 186.8 cms (73.54 ins), width: 278.1 cms (109.49 ins). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Image | May 26, 2022
The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. 1791. Oil on canvas, Sketch retouched 1803. 48.6 × 72.9 cms (19 1/8 × 28 11/16 ins). The Art Institute of Chicago.
Image | May 26, 2022
Design for the ceiling decoration of the Royal Chapel, Windsor Castle. c.1779. (black chalk, pen & brown ink & watercolour, heightened with touches of white, grey & blue bodycolour & brown wash.)
Image | Feb 1, 2019
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The paintings were reproduced in “La Sainte Bible : Ancien Testament . . . / Compositions par J.-James Tissot” with preface by A. D. Sertillanges, introduction by M. de Brunoff and the French version of L. J. Lemaistre de Saci. (Sertillanges, Antonin Gilbert 1863-1948; Le Maistre de Sacy, Isaac-Louis, 1613-1684) 2 vols.: illus., plates: 4to. 40 plates, 360 illustrations to text, by James Tissot (Tissot, Jacques-Joseph, French, 1836-1902). Paris: M. de Brunoff & Cie, 1904.
The edition contains 360 mounted colour, b/w, and duo-tone illustrations in the text and 40 plates in three states, sepia-tone, partly hand-coloured, and finished coloured state. The plates are protected with captioned tissue-guards. The paper size is 15 3/4 x 13 ins; image size varies (c 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 ins).
Illustration was completed after Tissot’s death in 1902 by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, Auguste François Gorguet, Charles Hoffbauer, Louis van Parys, Michel Simonidy and Georges Bertin Scott.
Of the 561 copies printed, the John Rylands Library (Manchester) copy is an “exemplaire unique”. As well as the triple set of the large plates in various states, and a series of proofs before letters of the illustrations appearing in the text, it contains a water colour drawing by Tissot (“Joseph presents his father Jacob to Pharaoh”), his original pen and ink sketches for this work, and an autograph letter by him.
Files created by Phillip Medhurst: Tissot in Brunoff at the John Rylands
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