Gustave Doré1866
The Death of Athaliah
When the boy-king Joash is revealed and crowned, the usurping queen Athaliah cries treason and is seized and put to death outside the temple (2 Kings 11). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).
Depicted passages
About Gustave Doré
1832-1883 · French
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.