Gustave Doré1866
An Angel Appears to Balaam
On the road to curse Israel, Balaam is halted when his donkey sees the angel of the Lord standing in the way with a drawn sword (Numbers 22). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

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Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French illustrator whose 241 wood engravings for "La Grande Bible de Tours" (1866) became the most influential visual interpretation of scripture of the 19th century.
