Resurrection of Jairus's Daughter
Ilya Repin, 1871
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Ilya Repin
- Date
- 1871
- Collection
- State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Reference
- XDV-2222
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Repin admitted that, to resolve the emotional meaning of the biblical scene, he imagined the resurrection of his own sister Ustya, who had died young, as the key to lending verisimilitude to the figures' reaction to the miracle.
