James Tissot · c.1874
The Ball on Shipboard
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Tissot's deck-of-the-Royal-Yacht-Squadron society party at Cowes — silk dresses, flags overhead, the gloss of late Victorian leisure. Tate Britain.
Up to 10 × 6 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Ball on Shipboard
The Ball on Shipboard is an 1874 oil painting by the French artist James Tissot. It shows a scene on the deck of a ship, festooned with flags during regatta held off the Isle of Wight. A ball is in progress featuring members of high society. Although Tissot drew on the idea of fashionable gatherings on the royal yacht, the lady by the rail in the straw hat is not Alexandra, Princess of Wales as was once believed.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé.
All James Tissot prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
