Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1902 — Tissot’s Religious Bend. [ARTICLE]

Tissot’s Religious Bend.

It Is a remarkable fact that before he began to paint religious pictures M. Tissot was chiefly known for portraits of pretty women and drawingroom subjects. One day, so the story goes, he was in a London church, when he felt an irresistible desire to depict religious subjects, and the pleasure which he derived from his first work of this character inspired him with the idea of producing his famous series of paintings. Tlssot’s water colors illustrating the life of Christ were exhibited in this city, and were ultimately sold to the Brooklyn Institute for $60,000, the money being raised largely by popular subscription. A French firm had previously paid a very large sum for the right of reproducing the pictures.—New York Times.