Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Holy Saturday
Three Illustrations for Holy Saturday
+ The Two Marys Watch the Tomb of Jesus
+ Joseph of Arimathaea Seeks Pilate to Beg Permission to Remove the Body of Jesus
+ The Watch Over the Tomb of Jesus
The Two Marys Watch the Tomb of Jesus
Matthew 27:61: "Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb."
Joseph of Arimathaea Seeks Pilate to Beg Permission to Remove the Body of Jesus
Matthew 27:62-65: "The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 'Sir,' they said, 'we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, "After three days I will rise again." So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.'"'Take a guard,' Pilate answered. 'Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.'"
The Watch Over the Tomb of Jesus
Matthew 27:66: So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
This is one of a series of posts for Holy Week.
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Palm Sunday
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Monday
Holy Illustrated by James Tissot: Tuesday
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Wednesday
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Holy Thursday
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Good Friday
Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Easter Sunday
After his conversion back to the Catholic faith of his childhood, James Jacques Tissot, French realist painter of worldly scenes, took three arduous trips to the Holy Land to seek out and record authentic details about the people, the landscape, the architecture, and the way of life. On his return he created a series of goache (opaque watercolor) illustrations that he later published with great success in a lavishly produced book with the title, The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Compositions from the Four Gospels with Notes and Explanatory Drawings.
In 1896, the illustrations went on a trans-Atlantic tour to be displayed in London, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, and they attracted throngs wherever they were shown. In 1900, the illustrations along with Tissot's preliminary drawings and notes were purchased on the advice of John Singer Sargent to be the centerpiece collection of the newly formed Brooklyn Museum of Art—with the help of thousands of subscriptions from average citizens. The images on this page are from the Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org. "RIGHTS STATEMENT No known copyright restrictions."
James Tissot: The Life of Christ, 2009, from the last major exhibition of his watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum, which were removed from exhibition in 1930.
