Christ Blessing the Children

Christ, in a blue-grey robe, lifts a baby before a crowd of mothers and children in Renaissance dress. Women in red and green crowd the left, while a bearded elder in red stands at right beside a girl and boy reaching toward the Savior.

Look closer: Inscription in gold letters across the top edge of the panel.

Artist

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Date

ca. 1545–50

Medium

Oil on beech

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3903 × 2827 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982