James Tissot1886

Healing of the Lepers at Capernaum

A man covered with leprosy falls before Jesus and begs to be made clean; Jesus reaches out his hand, touches him, and the disease leaves him at once (Luke 5). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his life of Christ.

Healing of the Lepers at Capernaum by James Tissot depicting Luke 5:12
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

Luke 5:12-16Primary
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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