James Tissot1896

Miriam Shut Out from the Camp

Struck with leprosy for speaking against Moses, Miriam is shut outside the camp for seven days while the people wait before journeying on (Numbers 12). A gouache by the French painter James Tissot.

Miriam Shut Out from the Camp by James Tissot depicting Numbers 12:9
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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.