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William Holman Hunt / The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple

The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple

1860 · Oil on canvas

LocationBirmingham, United Kingdom
Genrereligious art
Dimensions85.7 × 141 cm

Why it matters

The twelve-year-old Jesus is found by his parents debating scripture with learned rabbis in the Temple. Hunt aimed for an ethnographically accurate version of the subject.

Did you know?

  • He worked on it from 1854 to 1860.
  • It illustrates Luke 2:41.
  • The subject is traditionally known as Christ Among the Doctors.

Based on the Wikipedia article The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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