The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple [SEP] creator
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854–1860) is a painting by William Holman Hunt intended as an ethnographically accurate version of the subject traditionally known as "Christ Among the Doctors", an illustration of the child Jesus debating the interpretation of the scripture with learned rabbis. The passage illustrated is from the Gospel of Luke, 2:41, which states:
Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they
of art.". Ernest Gambart, as related by Hunt, was less enthusiastic, and was later to remark: "I wanted a nice religious picture and he painted me a great goat." "The Art Journal" in 1860, at the time of the exhibition of Hunt's later work "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple", was to characterise the painting as "having disappointed even his warmest admirers".
At the time of the exhibition of "The Scapegoat" itself, in 1856