Five young women sit together, waiting for the bridegroom with their lamps trimmed. They have brought oil. Tissot paints them calm and ready, wrapped in white against the night.
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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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