Masters of the Life of Christ

Masters/James Tissot/The Woman of Samaria at the Well

The Woman of Samaria at the Well, opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper by James Tissot, 1886–1894

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Jesus sits tired by the well, and a woman of Samaria has come to draw water. Tissot places the well in a cool vaulted space. She stands with her jar, listening to the man who knows everything she ever did.

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