(TISSOT JAMES JACQUES) La Sainte Bible (Ancien Testament)

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(TISSOT, JAMES JACQUES.) La Sainte Bible (Ancien Testament). Pictorial titles in two states, 402 illustrations, some mounted to text leaves, hors texte plates are in both heliogravure and color states, with lettered tissue guards. 2 volumes. Thick folio, contents loose as issued in pictorial wrappers; laid into 1/4 vellum and gilt-pictorial cloth folding cases with silk ties; rare original lettered balsam wood crates with hinged tops, need repair. Internally very clean. Paris: M. de Brunoff & Co., 1904

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number 375 of 560 sets on grand vélin des papeteries du marais containing two suites. Tissot died in 1902 and the project was finished by his six assistants (Bellery-Desfontaines, A.-F. Gorguet, Ch. Hoffbauer, A. de Parys, G. Scott et Simonidy). In his later life, Tissot abandoned his usual subjects and turned to religious topics, treating them with a degree of topographical and archeological allusion. In the 1982 exhibition catalogue of Biblical paintings of J. James Tissot at the Jewish Museum, Gert Schiff pointed out that the artist "felt free to change people''s ages, to introduce motifs that were not strictly Biblical, and in general to skirt the drudgery of replication. Imaginative truth, not reconstructed ''literal truth,'' was what he was after. If he thought that brass instruments would add a Berliozian note to the ram''s horn trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho, he put them in. If he thought that it made better sense if Cain was twice as old as Abel, he went ahead. If he thought that mouth to mouth resuscitation would have been just the thing for Elijah when he wanted to raise the widow''s son from the dead, he went ahead with that, too, even if it did rather take away from the miracle."