The female figure dressed in black and white in this work was modeled by Mary Hodgkinson, who also was the model for the artist's earlier painting, Isabella.  
The female figure dressed in black and white in this work was modeled by Mary Hodgkinson, who also was the model for the artist's earlier painting, Isabella.  A single red flower and a herd of sheep can be seen through an open door in the left-hand side of this work.  This painting was originally exhibited untitled with a verse from Zechariah beginning "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands?" A small drop of blood can be seen on the left foot of the title figure, who is brought a bowl of water from a shirtless child to bathe his wound.  A saw and a ladder with a white dove resting on it form two thirds of a triangle in the background of this work, and several wood shards litter the floor.  One critic attacked the "dislocated throat" of its kneeling Mary and called the title figure a "blubbering, red-haired boy"; that critic was Charles Dickens.  For 10 points, name this painting of a young Jesus by John Everett Millais.
The female figure dressed in black and white in this work was modeled by Mary Hodgkinson, who also was the model for the artist's earlier painting, Isabella.  
Christ in the House of His Parents [or Christ in the Carpenter's Shop; or And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands?  Then he shall answer, Those which I was wounded in the house of my friends (Zechariah, 13.6)]