He looks back over his shoulder and raises a finger.
Bible in art · John
The Calling of Saint John and Saint Andrew (Vocation de Saint Jean et de Saint André)
James Tissot · 1886–1894
Brooklyn Museum, New York
In a dry valley with a stream and bare golden hills, Jesus walks towards us wrapped in a white mantle. Two men hurry after him: an older one in a striped red robe and a younger one in green with a white cloak.
Jesus has just turned his head and raises a finger as he speaks to them. Tissot set many of these first meetings outdoors, in landscapes like those he sketched in Palestine.
From the text
- Two of John’s disciples follow Jesus (John 1:37)
- “What do you want?” … “where are You staying?” (John 1:38)
- “Come and see” (John 1:39)
The artist’s own
- The rocky valley with a winding stream
- The two disciples as an older and a younger man
Details
Jesus
The older disciple
A grey-bearded man in a red-striped robe follows.
The younger disciple
In green and white, he hurries along with his hands raised.
The stream
A thin blue stream runs through the stony valley.
James Tissot, French, 1836–1902. Brooklyn Museum, New York (Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.55) · Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper · Brooklyn Museum (Commons file page, «Permission»): "This image was uploaded by the Brooklyn Museum as a content partnership, and is considered to have no known copyright restrictions by the institutions of the Brooklyn Museum." — "No known copyright restrictions".