James Tissot1886

Judas Returns the Money

Seized with remorse, Judas throws the thirty pieces of silver down in the temple before the chief priests and goes away (Matthew 27). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his life of Christ.

Judas Returns the Money by James Tissot depicting Matthew 27:3
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

Matthew 27:3-10Primary
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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