THE Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot, portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836 - 1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London.
Handsome and charming, his friends included the painters James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
By 1870, at age 34, he had become a multi-millionaire celebrity with an opulent new Parisian villa and studio among aristocratic neighbors near the Arc de Triomphe.
THE Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot, portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836 - 1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London