Bloch finished this in 1863, at 29, while he was living in Italy. It is his first religious painting, and you can already see what he would become: a dark room, a single source of light, and a quiet human moment.

The girl lies on the bed, lit as if from within. Her mother sits beside her, bent with grief. And in the arched doorway at the back, barely visible, Jesus has just entered, with others behind Him. The painting stops one breath before “Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.”