James Tissot: The Prussian Flag

Authors

Philipp Malzl, Brigham Young University
Dr. Martha Peacock, Brigham Young University

Keywords

James Tissot, Prussian flag, paintings, social profit

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

James Tissot was a French nineteenth-century painter who spent a great deal of his creative life in London. During those years he repeatedly chose to make the Prussian flag a somewhat conceiled, central motive in several of his paintings. The Ball on Shipboard (1874) is the most obvious example. What makes this practice peculiar is the fact that Prussia had overwhelmingly defeated France in the Franco-Prussian war only four years earlier. Thus, the pivotal question for my research was why Tissot would honor the victor over his homeland with this gesture.

Recommended Citation

Malzl, Philipp and Peacock, Dr. Martha (2014) "James Tissot: The Prussian Flag," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 454.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/454