Masters/Frans Schwartz/The Wise and Foolish Virgins
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A long, narrow painting, like a frieze. At the left, the wise virgins raise their lamps toward a door of golden light; at the right, the foolish ones are left in the dark. Above, the bridegroom’s coming fills the night sky.
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Other masters in room 54, The Ten Virgins:
James Tissot
The Wise Virgins, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.179)
James Tissot
The Foolish Virgins, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.180)
Image: Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
