James Tissot1886

The Merchants Chased from the Temple

Entering the temple, Jesus drives out those buying and selling, overturning the tables of the money-changers and declaring it a house of prayer (Matthew 21). A watercolor by the French painter James Tissot, from his life of Christ.

The Merchants Chased from the Temple by James Tissot depicting Mark 11
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

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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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