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That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction

Alternate Title(s):The Daughter of Jairus
Date: 1929
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1667
Research Number: NCW: 1667
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1114, p. 520
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library