The apostles try to keep children away from Christ. Christ responds and allows the children to come to him and blesses them (Matthew 19:13-15). The print has a Latin caption; it is part of a series on the life of Christ.
| Artist |
Jacques de Bie
RKD
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Maerten de Vos
RKD
Wikidata
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Joannes Galle
RKD
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| Title | Let the Little Children Come to Me (Christ Blesses the Children), from the series Vita, passio et Resvrrectio Iesv Christi |
| Date | ca. 1598 - 1618 |
| Period |
16th century
17th century |
| Location | Antwerp TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Sinite parvulos, et nolite eos prohibere ad me venire: talium ets enim regnum caelorum. |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: Matth. 29. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: 29. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: M. de Vos invent. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Iacob. de Bye sculp. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Ioan. Galle excud. | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-LZ-23 |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-LZ-23 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11670/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D
Christ
Iconclass
11D3 Christ as adult Iconclass 11D334 adult Christ together with apostles, evangelists, saints, etc. Iconclass 11Q7562 blessing (either of things or persons), e.g. by anointing Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA2321 leaning forward - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D11222 girl (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2121 son (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2122 daughter (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass 73C7 Christ as teacher (part I): explaining his doctrine; teaching ~ parables and proverbs Iconclass 73C722 Christ explaining his doctrine to women and children Iconclass 73C7224 Christ blessing children brought by their mothers, usually with some disciples disapprovingly looking on (Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
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