St. John leading Home His Adopted Mother Size:24" x 36" as well as a Montagnard

as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security

The Gospel records that Simeon had been promised that "he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ" (Luke 2:26)

Irene removes the arrows from the side of the nearly dead St

Christ tied to the pillar in the moments before His scourging

leaning incautiously from the low sides of the raft

St. John leading Home His Adopted Mother Size:24" x 36" as well as a MontagnardA touching and sorrowful representation of St. John leading His Adopted Mother Home after departing the tomb (depicted in the background) wherein Christ was laid. A tribute to some of Christ's last words, the bequeathing of His Mother to the Human Race: "Woman, behold thy Son" and to St. John "Behold thy Mother." This piece was painted by William Dyce (1806 1864). He was a member of the Pre Raphaelites and though he never left Europe, he spent much