Masters/Heinrich Hofmann/Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
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Jesus sits on the edge of the well with His traveler’s staff, one hand raised as He speaks. The woman stands across from Him with her water jar, listening. “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”
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Other masters in room 18, Living Water:
Carl Bloch
Woman at the Well, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
James Tissot
The Woman of Samaria at the Well, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.69)
Image: Wikimedia Commons (from the Internet Archive). The work itself is in the public domain.
