James Tissot1896
Hosea (portrait)
The prophet Hosea, whose own troubled marriage becomes a living parable of God's faithful love for a wayward Israel (Hosea 1). A gouache study by the French painter James Tissot.
Depicted passages
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D600&w=2048&q=75)
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.