James Tissot1886
The Holy Virgin Receives the Body of Jesus
After Joseph of Arimathea takes Jesus down from the cross, his mother receives his body to mourn before it is wrapped in linen and laid in the tomb (Luke 23). 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.