James Tissot1886
My Soul is Sorrowful unto Death
In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus is overwhelmed with sorrow unto death, falling on his face in prayer while the disciples sleep (Matthew 26). 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.