Gustave Doré1866

Flight into Egypt

Warned in a dream of Herod's plot, Joseph rises in the night and takes the child and his mother on the long road into Egypt for safety (Matthew 2). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

Flight into Egypt by Gustave Doré depicting Matthew 2:13
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), La Grande Bible de Tours, 1866.Source

Depicted passages

Matthew 2:13-14Primary
Portrait of Gustave Doré

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.

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