Masters/Carl Bloch/Christ and the Children
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Jesus sits low, at a child’s height, against a sunlit wall. One child presses close against His side. Another stands at His knee, half-wrapped in a cloth, unsure. Mothers wait at the left.
At the right, a disciple steps forward and gestures, perhaps to keep the families back, as Mark says the disciples tried to do. Jesus does not look at him. He looks up toward the mothers, and draws the children in.
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Other masters in room 47, Suffer the Little Children:
Carl Bloch
Christ Blessing a Little Child, 1873
Oil on canvas, 385 × 160 cm
Altarpiece, Sankt Nikolai Kirke, Holbæk
Bernhard Plockhorst
Christ Blessing the Children, 19th century
Painting, shown in an 1899 photographic reproduction
Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F00701-22)
James Tissot
Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.188)
Harry Anderson
Christ with the Children
Under copyright, so not shown here.
View it on the Gospel Media LibraryThe King's Oratory, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark. The 23 paintings hang in the King's Oratory, next to the castle chapel. Frederiksborg says visitors can see them every day, all year.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
