The Holy Women at the Tomb
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The sign arrives before the words. The women find the tomb open and empty; only then does an angel say Christ is risen.
They came in mourning dress, carrying spices to anoint a corpse, an errand the empty grave has cancelled. His first words are an order not to be afraid; the museum reads them trembling with fright, overwhelmed by grief.
Bouguereau took the dead Cabanel's seat at Antwerp's Academy in 1890, then chose this canvas for the city's 1894 world's fair to lodge it in the academic gallery. He was paid 23,500 francs — the sum Cabanel had received.
Sources: KMSKA object page · Artchive.com artwork page (lower-rigor secondary source) · The Catechetical Review, 'Inspired Through Art: The Holy Women at the Tomb' (paywalled preview) · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA), object record 'Les Saintes Femmes au tombeau' (French-language masterpiece page), accession 1580 · Mark 16:6, Douay-Rheims (Challoner), project corpus data/bible_drc.js — this is the card's own scene verse, already marked verified in the brief · Mark 16:1, Douay-Rheims (Challoner), project corpus data/bible_drc.js
Who saith to them: Be not affrighted. you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen: he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him.
Mark 16:6 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,965 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.