Christ Walking on the Water — Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Christ Walking on the Water

1910

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.42 × 24.13 cm (7 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.48 × 26.04 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.3016
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Henry Ossawa Tanner. Christ Walking on the Water. Henry Ossawa Tanner; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Christ Walking on the Water — Henry Ossawa Tanner. 1910.

Medium: etching in black on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.42 × 24.13 cm (7 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.48 × 26.04 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3016. Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.).

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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