Masters of the Life of Christ

Masters/James Tissot/The Piscina Probatica or Pool of Bethesda

The Piscina Probatica or Pool of Bethesda, opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper by James Tissot, 1886–1894

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The sick lie along the edges of the pool under its arches, waiting for the water to move. One man had waited thirty-eight years. Tissot paints the long, patient rows of people beside still water.

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