The house is so crowded that four friends break open the roof and lower the paralyzed man on ropes. Tissot paints him hanging in the air above the crowd, arms reaching up to steady the bed.
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Masters/James Tissot/The Palsied Man Let Down through the Roof
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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