James Tissot1896

Cain Leads Abel to Death

Cain leads his brother Abel out into the field, where in his anger he rises up and kills him (Genesis 4). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his illustrated Old Testament.

Cain Leads Abel to Death by James Tissot depicting Genesis 4:8
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. James Tissot (1836–1902), biblical watercolors from The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ (1886–1894) and The Old Testament.Source

Depicted passages

Genesis 4:8Primary
Portrait of James Tissot

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.

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