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The Ball on Shipboard  1874

by James Tissot

Tissot’s paintings of fashionable Victorian social scenes, such as this, were extremely popular and brought him celebrity and financial success. However some critics complained of their lack of clear narrative and moral purpose, which were deemed indispensable to the role of art as social teacher. John Ruskin described them as ‘unhappy mere colour photographs of vulgar soc...
Size: 
841 x 1295 mm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Tate Britain (Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported))