Peter and John Running to the Tomb by Eugène Burnand, John 20:1-10, Bible.Gallery
Peter and John Running to the Tomb created 1898 Its dimension is 134cm wide and 82cm high and it was drawn with oil on canvas style.
Artwork Description
It has the imposing title, The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection.
More often than not it’s just referred to by the shortened form, The Disciples or Les Disciples.
You won’t find it in the Louvre or the Met or the National Gallery. It hangs tucked away in an old railway station in Paris, now the Musée d’Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine.
It was painted in 1898 by a relatively little known Swiss artist named Eugène Burnand. He was something of an old-fashioned realist at a time when all the cool kids were embracing modernism. The Disciples didn’t make a splash when it was first hung. Burnand’s style was already considered passé by the 1890s.
Artist : Eugène Burnand