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Henry Ossawa Tanner · 1896

The Resurrection of Lazarus

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Lazarus lies on a pale shroud at the lower right as Christ stands calmly among a crowd of astonished onlookers in a dark cave, a thin strip of daylight showing at upper left. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Up to 10.1 × 8 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

10.1″8″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Resurrection of Lazarus

Tanner painted it in 1896; it won a third-class medal at the 1897 Paris Salon and was bought by the French state. Seeing it, the patron Rodman Wanamaker offered to pay for Tanner's trip to the Middle East (Wikipedia, Henry Ossawa Tanner).

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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