James Tissot1896
The Dove Returns to Noah
The dove returns to Noah at evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak, the sign that the waters have receded from the earth (Genesis 8). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his illustrated Old Testament.
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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.