The image is a classical-style painting featuring a central figure seated on a raised platform, depicted with a halo-like glow around the head. This central figure wears flowing robes. Surrounding this figure are several other people, some kneeling or reaching out, dressed in robes of various colors.
Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795–1858). Christus Consolator, 1851. Oil on canvas. Given in memory of Rev. D. J. Nordling by Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Dassel, Minnesota. 2008.101

Book Launch: Danny Klecko’s “Exhausting Jesus at the Minneapolis Institute of Art”

Join us for the book launch of Exhausting Jesus at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, by local poet and master bread baker Danny Klecko. Published by St. Paul–based Paris Morning Publications, the book chronicles Klecko’s unprecedented 100-hour marathon contemplation of the 1851 painting Christus Consolator (Christ the Comforter) by Ary Scheffer.

Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795–1858). Christus Consolator, 1851. Oil on canvas. Given in memory of Rev. D. J. Nordling by Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Dassel, Minnesota. 2008.101