2-720-269 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs', mid-late 19th century. Biblical scene, from Mark 7: 28: 'And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. Then Jesus told her, "Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter".' Jesus casts out a demon from the daughter of the Canaanite woman. Engraving after 'The Woman Of Canaan At The Feet Of Christ', a painting of 1784 by Jean-Germain Drouais in the Louvre Museum, Paris.