File:Picture of Tanner in his workshop, painting "Christ In the Temple".jpg

English: Picture of Tanner in his workshop, painting "Christ In the Temple".

From the magazine article:

[Note: text in public domain, published 1900] The picture upon which Mr. Tanner is now working will be the largest one he has yet painted, and is perhaps the most ambitious in many respects . The subject is " Christ in the Temple"...the Christ seated in the middle is the least worked - out point of the composition...The temple walls are a warm gray in tone, and the pillars, so cleverly composed that they do not divide the picture, are of richly tinted Oriental marble is a peculiar green-blue mosaic...and this he will use as a guide for his mosaic floor. Here and there are irregular patches of sunlight, and the whole tone of the picture is warm. At the right an old patriarch crouches on an orange mat, and suggestions of orange are to be carried throughout the picture. There is also a sort of purple tunic that he has put on one or two of the men; not a vivid, strong purple, but a deep, warm, steeped-in-sunshine purple, a tone that I have never seen used by any other painter, and which is deliciously Oriental in feeling. The composition can be judged from the photograph of the studio interior, reproduced here. The foremost figure to the left is very strongly drawn. The details and the hand are yet to be finished.^[1]