{"id":13599,"date":"2024-07-17T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:58:24","slug":"tissot-etchings-at-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/tissot-etchings-at-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tissot etchings at Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think James Tissot (1836–1902) is a much better artist than I once believed. I had lumped him with Sargent and other late-19th-century artists who I consider superficial and fashionable. He’s much better than Sargent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that, this etching, The Hammock<\/em> (1880), is a little too saccharine for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>In the studio 4\/25\/15<\/span><\/a><\/div>

The etching on the front page is titled At the Seaside<\/em>. The subject of that etching and this one appear to be Tissot’s wife who died in his arms from consumption not long after this etching was finished. Both etchings are in Cleveland<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think James Tissot (1836–1902) is a much better artist than I once believed. I had lumped him with Sargent and other late-19th-century artists who I consider superficial and fashionable. He’s much better than Sargent. Having said that, this etching, The Hammock (1880), is a little too saccharine for me. Read moreIn the studio 4\/25\/15The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":13600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[251,489,530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-art-history","category-etching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1974.258_web.jpg?fit=351%2C893&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/mary-cassatt-and-the-feminine-ideal-in-19th-century-paris\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":0},"title":"Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Claude Monet maintained (I\u2019m paraphrasing) that caricature was the soul of art.\u00a0 Not a surprising statement coming from a master caricaturist.\u00a0 I agree with Monet wholeheartedly. The exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2014Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris\u2014provides a great opportunity to examine some drawing and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/monet-cari-e1352833150579.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4018,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/planned-visit-to-the-cleveland-museum-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":1},"title":"Planned visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 22, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"I'm going to the Cleveland Museum of Art later today to visit the Durer exhibition for the 3rd time. The small exhibit contains three-dozen prints--engravings\u00a0and\u00a0woodcuts, and a single\u00a0etching. I love prints and printmaking so this is a wonderful exhibit for me.","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13594,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/painting-by-tissot\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":2},"title":"Painting by Tissot","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I love it when I visit a museum and discover a new painting. I found this painting, The Proposal, by James Tissot (1836 - 1902) during my last visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Large museums like Cleveland's display only a portion of their collection, which means frequent visitors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tisot.jpg?fit=784%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tisot.jpg?fit=784%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tisot.jpg?fit=784%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tisot.jpg?fit=784%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2962,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/awakenings\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":3},"title":"Awakenings","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you remember your first encounters with great art? I vividly recall my introduction to certain artists--life-changing discoveries that revolutionized my views about art. The composer Berlioz recalled his introduction to Shakespeare this way: \"Shakespeare, coming upon me unawares, struck me like a thunderbolt. The lightning flash of that sublime\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Balzac by Rodin","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/balzac1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2814,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/robert-blackburn\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":4},"title":"Robert Blackburn","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"December 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"During my weekly visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art I was pleasantly surprised to see a newly-hung lithograph titled Blackburn. In the lithograph by Ron Adams (an artist heretofore unknown to me) I instantly recognized my former mentor Robert Blackburn. Adams portrays Robert doing what he was always doing:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/adams-blackburn.png?fit=400%2C284&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/durer-prints-at-the-cleveland-museum-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":5},"title":"Durer prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Cleveland's\u00a0exhibition, housed in two small rooms off the atrium,\u00a0is small put potent. Durer is one of the towering figures in Western art. His drawing prowess is unrivaled--some few have matched him but none have surpassed him. As the forty or so odd prints in this exhibition make clear, his mastery\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Melancholia, engraving by Durer","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/melen.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gw6F-3xl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13603,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions\/13603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}