James Tissot1886
A Holy Woman Wipes the Face of Jesus
Along the road to Calvary a woman steps from the crowd of weeping daughters of Jerusalem to wipe the face of Jesus (Luke 23). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his life of Christ.
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About James Tissot
1836-1902 · French
French painter who, after a vision experience in 1885, devoted the rest of his career to an extensive illustrated New Testament based on travel through the Holy Land. His watercolors are now held at the Brooklyn Museum.