  
 After painting fashionable society in Paris and London, James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836–1902) turned to illustrating the New Testament, making two expeditions to the Middle East to record the landscape, architecture, costumes, and customs of the Holy Land. When he debuted the majority of his series of 350 gouaches at the 1894 Paris Salon, these jewel-like works were an overwhelming success. Among the twelve images in this calendar are The Magnificat, The Grotto of the Agony, The Ascension, The Annunciation, The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, The Childhood of Saint John the Baptist, Jesus Looking Through a Lattice, The Sower, and The Adoration of the Shepherds.
Published with the Brooklyn Museum. Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in. ISBN 978-0-7649-4840-4.
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