“L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman),” also referred to as “The Reception,” belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between 1883 and 1885. The series, entitled “La femme à Paris,” contains some of his most trenchant observations and comments on late nineteenth-century Parisian society. The political arena inhabited by this painting’s subject isContinue reading "L’Ambitieuse by James Tissot"
