Masters/Bernhard Plockhorst/Christ Blessing the Children
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Jesus sits under the trees with a small child on His knee, and mothers and children crowd around Him from the left. A boy sits on the ground at the lower right. This old photograph, from the Rijksmuseum, shows the painting as people saw it in prints a century ago.
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Other masters in room 47, Suffer the Little Children:
Carl Bloch
Christ and the Children, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Carl Bloch
Christ Blessing a Little Child, 1873
Oil on canvas, 385 × 160 cm
Altarpiece, Sankt Nikolai Kirke, Holbæk
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 LibraryImage: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
