New! Jesus Raising Jairus's Daughter Back to Life – Vasilij Polenov – Archival Quality – Miracle of Jesus

Several times in Jesus's ministry, he restored to life people who had died. In this powerful picture, he is raising the daughter of Jairus, a synagogue official, back to life. In Mark 5:21, it says, "He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”" The Hebrew word on the wall is Morah, which means "Teacher," referring to Jesus.

She has just opened her eyes, and stares in wonder and holy fear at Jesus, the one who made her and has brought her back to life. He is the author of life. If he gave us life once, this present life, he can do it a second time in the life to come.

Vasilij Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927), a widely-popular landscape painter, said that "Art should promote happiness and joy." What more joy is there than the resurrection? Polenov was born into an art-focused family in the art-rich city of St. Petersburg, and he became an artist at an early age. His mother, an artist, taught him art, and his father encouraged it, so by his teens he had already developed sharp skills. As an adult artist, he was respected across Europe and Russia. His peer, Ilya Repin, another widely-respected master of painting, has the other picture currently in our shop of Jesus raising Jarius's daughter. They both painted big.

5.6 x 9.1 feet. Oil on canvas. Displayed at the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. We cropped this for a couple of reasons, mainly because we thought it was a better picture when cropped, at least for modern audiences, as it has a more contemporary presentation of subject matter and theme. Above all, this moment was between Jesus and the girl.

We assume Polenov was Orthodox, but the story is one of Jesus raising the girl by his Godly powers, and that's something all Christians believe.

** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.

There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:

– Acid-free paper

– Archival pigments

– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.

– Above story of the art

– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.

– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”

~ St. Pope John Paul II

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic Art.