The Magdalene Runs to the Cenacle to Tell the Apostles that the Body of Jesus is No Longer in the Tomb (Madeleine court au cénacle et avertit les apôtres que le corps de Jésus n'est plus dans le tombeau)

James Tissot · 1886–1894
Brooklyn Museum, New York

In a dim hall with columns and a hanging lamp, the disciples lie and sit on the floor, wrapped in their cloaks, hiding and resting.

At the right, through a doorway, Mary Magdalene has just come in at a run, and the first of them rise to meet her. Tissot left most of the sheet in brown shadow, as in the hour before dawn.

From the text

“she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple” (John 20:2)

“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb” (John 20:2)

The artist’s own

The disciples hiding together in a hall

The hanging glass lamp

Details

Mary Magdalene

A figure comes in through the doorway.

Rising

A disciple gets up and reaches out.

Asleep

Men lie wrapped in their cloaks on the floor.

The lamp

A glass lamp hangs from the ceiling.

James Tissot, French, 1836–1902. Brooklyn Museum, New York (Purchased by public subscription, 00.159.331) · 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".