Collection

The Lord's Prayer (Le "Pater Noster")

James Tissot

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Gathered around Jesus, the disciples ask him to teach them to pray. With arms opened wide and hands upraised in a gesture of humility, Jesus begins his prayer with an acknowledgment of God’s power in heaven and on earth. (Tissot places Jesus between the color-streaked sky and the ground on which his disciples sit, further signifying Jesus’ place between the human and the divine.) This invocation became the foundational prayer for his followers.

Caption

James Tissot (Nantes, France, 1836–1902, Chenecey–Buillon, France). The Lord's Prayer (Le "Pater Noster"), 1886–1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in. (21.6 x 16.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in. (21.6 x 16.4 cm) Frame: 20 x 15 x 1 1/2 in. (50.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.167. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

The Lord's Prayer (Le "Pater Noster")

Date

1886–1896

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

Image: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in. (21.6 x 16.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in. (21.6 x 16.4 cm) Frame: 20 x 15 x 1 1/2 in. (50.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed bottom right: "J.J. Tissot"

Credit Line

Purchased by public subscription

Accession Number

00.159.167

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Artists and makers

James Tissot

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