Carl Heinrich Bloch1875

Christ Healing the Sick

As his fame spreads through Galilee, Jesus is surrounded by crowds bringing the sick and afflicted to him, and he heals them all (Matthew 4). An oil on canvas by the Danish painter Carl Bloch (1875).

Christ Healing the Sick by Carl Heinrich Bloch depicting Matthew 4:23
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), including the Frederiksborg Castle cycle on the life of Christ.Source

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About Carl Heinrich Bloch

1834-1890 · Danish

Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter best known for the 23-painting cycle on the life of Christ commissioned for the Chapel of Frederiksborg Castle (1865–1879). His warmly lit, intimate scenes are among the most widely reproduced devotional images of the 19th century.