James Tissot1896

Moses Laid Amid the Flags

The infant Moses lies hidden in a basket among the reeds at the river's edge, where Pharaoh's daughter will soon find him and take pity (Exodus 2). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his illustrated Old Testament.

Moses Laid Amid the Flags by James Tissot depicting Exodus 2:3
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

Exodus 2:3-6Primary
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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