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Tissot's  "October"
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1877

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Sargent's   "Madame Edouard Pailleron"
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1879


 
Tissot in Juxtaposition

  . . . [the] tapestrylike background and strongly silhouetted figure [of Sargent's painting] are like those in contemporary figure painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (Fig. 99 ["October"])

(
Gary A. Reynolds  “Sargent’s Late Portraits;”  John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum, 1986, p.49)

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Created 12/13/2005