Seen from behind, in a white mantle, in the middle of the crowd.
Bible in art · Mark
The Woman with an Issue of Blood (L'hémoroïsse)
James Tissot · 1886–1894
Brooklyn Museum, New York
A narrow street between high white walls is jammed with people following Jesus. Tissot painted him from behind, in the middle of the crowd, wrapped in a white mantle, turning as if he has felt something.
Low down at his feet, almost lost among the legs and robes, a woman in white kneels and reaches out to touch the edge of his cloak. Around her mothers carry children, and an old woman leans out to see.
From the text
- A woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years (Mark 5:25)
- “she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak” (Mark 5:27)
The artist’s own
- The woman shown tiny and kneeling, hidden in the crowd
- A steep street of arches and stairs
Details
Jesus
The woman
She kneels and stretches her hand to his cloak.
A mother
A woman in yellow holds a little child.
The crowd
People fill the street back to the arches.
James Tissot, French, 1836–1902. Brooklyn Museum, New York (Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.111) · 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".