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Jesus Preaches the
Sermon on the Mount
Tissot was born at
Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under
Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon
for the first time at the age of twenty-three.
It was many years before he turned to the chief labor of his
career, the production of a series of 700 watercolor drawings to
illustrate the life of Christ and the Old Testament. He
disappeared from Paris, whither he had returned after the death
of Kathleen Newton, and went to Palestine. In 1896 the series of
350 drawings of incidents in the life of Christ was exhibited in
Paris, and the following year found them on show in London. They
were then published by the firm of Lemercier in Paris, who had
paid him 1,100,000 francs for them. (Over 500 related drawings,
watercolors and oils are now in the collection of the Brooklyn
Museum.)
Jesus Preaches the
Sermon on the Mount
Tissot, James
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