"Born in Nantes, France, James Tissot trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. His mature career spanned both sides of the English Channel, where he garnered commercial and critical success. Despite recognition from patrons and peers, his reputation suffered posthumously. The critic John Ruskin's perception that Tissot created "unhappy mere color photographs of vulgar society" persists, and the artist is still too often classified as a painter...