James Tissot1896
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream
Brought up from the dungeon, Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven lean years, foretelling famine and the need to store grain (Genesis 41). 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.