James Tissot1886
The Descent from the Cross
As evening falls, Joseph of Arimathea takes the body of Jesus down from the cross to wrap it in clean linen and lay it in his own new tomb (Matthew 27). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his life of Christ.
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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.