Offer van Abraham
On the mountain in Moriah, Abraham binds Isaac upon the altar, and as he raises the knife the angel of the Lord stays his hand (Genesis 22). By the Dutch printmaker Crispijn van de Passe, held in the Rijksmuseum.
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About Crispijn van de Passe
1564-1637 · Dutch
Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch engraver and founder of a four-generation dynasty of printmakers; his biblical series — including the Liber Genesis and Life of Christ — circulated across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike.