162 James Tissot, The Shop Girl, 1883-85, oil on canvas, 146 ×...

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TitleThe Shop Girl

Creator nameTissot, James

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883–1885

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions146 × 101.6 cm

LocationArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

https://ago.ca/collection/object/67/55

Accession number67/55

SubjectsStores, Retail, in artImpressionism (Art)--FranceWorking class women in artWomen--PortraitsClothing and dress--France--History--19th century

StatusFrom the Series "Women of Paris"

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Chapter 8: Looking Through, Across, and Up The Architectural Aesthetics of the Paris Street

David Van Zanten

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Until recently, the administration overseeing the street lines of Paris allowed builders—as long as they respected the laws of building height—the liberty of placing balconies, cornices and entablatures as they saw fit. . . .

Author

David Van Zanten

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.153-164

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356.14

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Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryImpressionism (Art)--FranceStreets--France--ParisArchitecture--France--Paris--History--19th centuryHaussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891

4. Suspicious Professions

Hollis Clayson

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era

In the second half of the nineteenth century most French women in the labor force were young single members of the popular classes. Many of those who worked in certain of the classic female professions in Paris, such as the needle trades, were suspected of being prostitutes...

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Hollis Clayson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.113-153

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00319.5

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FranceProstitution--France--History--19th centuryClothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryWomen and gender--France--19th centuryWorking class women in art--France--19th centuryRenoir, Auguste, 1841-1919Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917Tissot, James, 1836-1902

10. Finale: The Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Carol Armstrong

Manet Manette

~Two years after the show at La Vie Moderne, Manet declared he was a “philosopher of the Folies-Bergère”: he showed the Bar at the Folies-Bergère (fig. 137) at...

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Carol Armstrong

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.269-301

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00080.013

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Chapter subject tags:Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryStill-life painting, French--19th centuryImpressionism (Art)--FranceChardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779

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