Gustave Doré1866

Marriage at Cana

At a wedding feast in Cana, when the wine runs out, Jesus has the servants fill six stone jars with water and turns it into wine, the first of his signs (John 2). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

Marriage at Cana by Gustave Doré depicting John 2:1
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), La Grande Bible de Tours, 1866.Source

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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.