CHRIST, INFANT, Murillo, Matthias H. Arnot, Elmira, N. Y.; canvas, H. 2 ft. 1 in. × 1 ft. 8 in. Infant Christ, sleeping, holding a crook, with a skull and a scroll; in background, angels guarding sheep. Duke of Hamilton sale (1882), £2,415. Incorrectly called St. John Baptist by Waagen.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 301; Curtis, 248.
CHRIST GIVING KEYS TO PETER,
Guido Reni, Louvre; canvas, H. 11 ft. 3 in.
× 10 ft. 2 in. At left, surrounded by Apostles,
Christ gives keys of Church to the
kneeling Peter. In Guido's second manner.
From Musée Napoléon.—Landon, Vies,
xxii. Pl. 10.
CHRIST AND THE MAGDALEN. See
Noli me tangere.
CHRIST AND THE MAGDALEN, Rembrandt,
Buckingham Palace; wood, H. 2
ft. × 1 ft. 8 in.; signed, dated 1638. Christ,
as a gardener, in a white robe and straw
hat, with a spade in his hand, is worshipped
by Mary Magdalen, at dawn of morning;
in background, the entrance to the sepulchre,
in which two angels are seen; in distance,
two disciples approaching. Purchased
(1736) by Elector of Hesse Cassel of
Mad. de Reuver; taken in 1806 to Malmaison;
at M. sale (1816) taken to England,
where bought by George IV.—Waagen, Art
Treasures, ii. 5; Smith, vii. 44.
Subject treated also by Lorenzo di Credi, Uffizi, Florence; Agnolo Bronzino, Louvre; Fr. Albani, ib.; Simone Cantarini, Munich Gallery; Onorio Marinari, S. M. Maggiore, Florence; Lavinia Fontana, Uffizi, ib.; Ciro Ferri, Vienna Museum; Fr. Bassano, Dresden Gallery; Aug. Braun, ib.; Jan van Mabuse, Brussels Museum; Mariotto Albertinelli, Louvre; Eustace Lesueur, ib.
CHRIST AND THE MARYS, Andrea
Mantegna, Brera, Milan; wood, tempera, H.
2 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. The dead Christ bewailed
by the Marys. Painted before 1474.
Long in Palazzo Gonzaga, Mantua, whence
carried off in 1630 by Bishop of Mantua; in
Cardinal Mazarin's palace in Rome in 1696;
bought, beginning of this century, by Giuseppe
Bossi and taken to Milan. It is in
Mantegna's grandest style.—C. & C., N.
Italy, i. 394.
CHRIST AND THE MONEY CHANGERS,
Jakob Jordaens, Louvre, Paris; canvas,
H. 9 ft. 6 in. × 14 ft. 4 in. At right, Christ
armed with a scourge; in centre, a confused
group, among which are an ass, a dog barking,
a sheep, a young man with his bench
overturned, and a woman suckling her
child; at left, a negro holding an ass and
an old woman putting birds into a cage;
in background, publicans and other figures.—Villot,
Cat. Louvre.
Subject treated also by Francesco Bassano, Dresden Museum; Jacopo Bassano, National Gallery, London, Madrid Museum; Peter Bassin, St. Petersburg Academy.
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Christ Healing the Paralytic, Murillo, Orwell Park.
CHRIST HEALING THE PARALYTIC, or Christ at Pool of Bethesda, Anton van Dyck, Buckingham Palace; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. Five figures, life-size, seen to knees. The paralytic, restored, is bending in adoration before Christ, in centre of the group; on his left, John; on his right, two other disciples. Long attributed to Rubens, and sold as his work for 3,700 florins at Brussels in 1758; Verhulst sale (1779), under Van Dyck's name, 4,777 fl.; Panvels sale (1803), 11,666 fl.; Van Alpen sale (1810), 19,200 fl.; La Fontaine sale
