The Sermon On the Mount
by BLOCH, Carl Heinrich, Oil on copper, 104 x 92 cm
Bloch’s principal work is the series of 23 paintings with scenes from the New Testament that the brewer J.C. Jacobsen (1811-1887) of Carlsberg commissioned in 1865 as decorations for King Christian IV’s (1577-1648) prayer seat in Frederiksborg Chapel.