Title: The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection
Artist: Eugène Burnand
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 82 x 134 cm
Date: 1898
Location: Musée d'Orsay,
This painting depicts events as described in John 20:3. Early Sunday morning after hearing from Mary Magdalene that the body of Jesus was gone, “Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. They ran side by side, until the other disciple ran faster than Peter and got there first.”
Here, Burnand has portrayed John, author of the gospel, as Jesus’ unnamed favorite disciple. Along with Simon Peter, the two concerned disciples rush toward the now empty tomb. The early morning light provides a literal glimmer of hope as it shines warmly across their emotional faces.
Eugène Burnand (30 August 1850 – 4 February 1921) was a Swiss painter, born in the
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