Christ Receiving the Children
Sébastien Bourdon · c. 1655
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 100.3 × 135.2 cm (39 1/2 × 53 1/4 in.); Framed: 120.4 × 153.7 cm (47 3/8 × 60 1/2 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Baroque
In this tender yet composed canvas, Christ gathers a cluster of children around him while figures look on — a scene rendered with the quiet authority that defines Sébastien Bourdon at his best. Bourdon (1616–1671) was one of the most versatile painters of seventeenth-century France, equally at home with religious subjects, landscapes, and portraiture. Trained in Paris and shaped by years working in Rome, he absorbed the classical discipline of Poussin alongside the warmer currents of Italian Baroque painting, and this work reflects both strands: figures arranged with compositional care, yet lit with a softness that gives the scene genuine warmth rather than mere formality. Bourdon was among the founding members of the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, established in Paris in 1648, and later served as court painter to Queen Christina of Sweden — recognition that speaks to the regard in which his contemporaries held him. This hand-painted oil reproduction preserves the tonal subtlety and figure work of Bourdon's original, held in the Art Institute of Chicago, and brings the painting's composed humanity into your home.
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