Jesus bends toward the children in a crowded street while their mothers press forward. The disciples had tried to send them away. “Suffer the little children to come unto me.”
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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
Bernhard Plockhorst
Christ Blessing the Children, 19th century
Painting, shown in an 1899 photographic reproduction
Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F00701-22)
Harry Anderson
Christ with the Children
Under copyright, so not shown here.
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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