Christ Blessing the Little Children Window by Tiffany Studios

Attributed to Tiffany Studios (American, active 1885–1932)
Christ Blessing the Little Children
circa 1900
leaded opalescent and painted glass
89 x 46 in.

This devotional window depicts Christ surrounded by children, blessing a kneeling boy while holding an infant in His arms. The composition belongs to a late nineteenth-century visual tradition shaped in part by the widely reproduced religious imagery of Heinrich Hofmann, whose designs were explicitly used as sources for stained-glass windows of this subject.

The figure of Christ also reflects the broader era’s idealized sacred imagery, recalling in its calm frontality and central authority the familiar type of Christ derived from Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper and related devotional reinterpretations. A comparable synthesis appears in Tiffany’s own work, including a documented Tiffany Studios Last Supper relief, suggesting how the studio adapted well-known Christian image traditions into richly modeled, luminous decorative forms.