Tissot's
"October" (click on
images to Step Closer) 1877
Sargent's
"Madame Edouard Pailleron" (click on
images to Step Closer) 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)
