Christ Knocking on the Door of the Soul
Philipp Veit, artist
Gottfried Rist, engraver
1824
Wood engraving
26.9 x 16.9 cm.
Graphische Sammlung, Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Frankfurt am Main
Veit here anticipates W. Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World, probably the most famous religious painting in nineteenth-century England and America — George P. Landow
This drawing is Figure 15 in Lionel Gossman’s Unwilling Moderns: The Nazarene Painters of the Nineteenth Century
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