He leans over the girl and takes her hand.
Bible in art · Mark
The Daughter of Jairus (La fille de Zäire)
James Tissot · 1886–1894
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Tissot set the healing outside the house, in a courtyard under a fig tree. The girl lies on a raised couch with a dark blue cover, and Jesus bends over her and takes her hand.
She has just sat up, and her mother, in a striped dress and veil, throws her arm around her. The old father kneels in front of the couch with his hands open. At the right, two disciples stand by the tree and watch.
From the text
- He takes the child’s father and mother and His own companions (Mark 5:40)
- “Talitha koum!” (Mark 5:41)
- “Immediately the girl got up” (Mark 5:42)
The artist’s own
- The scene in a courtyard rather than inside the house
- A fig tree shading the couch
Details
Jesus
The girl
She sits up on the couch, her mother holding her.
The father
An old man in a white turban kneels with his hands open.
Disciples
Two men stand by the fig tree and watch.
James Tissot, French, 1836–1902. Brooklyn Museum, New York (Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.108) · 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".