Tissot

[ tee-soh ]

/ tiˈsoʊ /

James Jo·seph Jacques

[zham zhaw-zef zhahk, zheymz] /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk, ʒeɪmz/,1836–1902, French painter.

Example sentences from the Web for tissot

At last Tissot published the results of his experiments, and the stereotyped answer was soon made.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom |Andrew Dickson White
It reminded me of Tissot's pictures of the Holy Land—the barren banks of the pebbly river, the fig-trees, the little groups.

Diplomatic Days |Edith O'Shaughnessy
The famous Doctor Tissot angrily rebukes excessive application to those studies which are universally esteemed as useless.

The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first |Count Carlo Gozzi
Tissot, meeting him soon after the scene at the Jacobins, thought that he looked like a dying man.

Lectures on the French Revolution |John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Unwarned, he had acted it is probable as Tissot had acted, weakly and stormily: warned, he had no excuse if he failed her.

The Long Night |Stanley Weyman

Tissot

/ (ˈtɪsəʊ) /

James Joseph Jacques. 1836–1902, French painter and etcher, best known for scenes of fashionable Victorian life painted in England