1868 (ca.), Edgar Degas, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas's friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s, both having studied under Louis Lamothe. Posed in a studio, Tissot is surrounded by canvases that reflect the wide-ranging tastes he shared with Degas: a Japanese scene; pictures of contemporary leisure; a Northern Renaissance portrait; and, behind the easel, a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Venetian subject. The composition is similar to that of Manet's Émile Zola, painted around the same time, but whereas Zola's posture is rigid, Tissot leans nonchalantly, suggesting greater familiarity between painter and subject.
1868 (ca.), Edgar Degas, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas's friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s, both having studied under Louis Lamothe. Posed in a studio, Tissot is surrounded by canvases that reflect the wide-ranging tastes he shared with Degas: a Japanese scene; pictures of contemporary leisure; a Northern Renaissance portrait; and, behind the easel, a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Venetian subject. The composition is similar to that of Manet's Émile Zola, painted around the same time, but whereas Zola's posture is rigid, Tissot leans nonchalantly, suggesting greater familiarity between painter and subject.