Masters of the Life of Christ

Masters/James Tissot/What Our Lord Saw from the Cross

What Our Lord Saw from the Cross, opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper by James Tissot, 1886–1894

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Tissot paints the crucifixion from the place of the cross itself, looking down at the people below. In the foreground, Mary Magdalene kneels. Beyond her stand the Virgin Mary and John, and past them the soldiers and the crowd.

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