Gustave Doré1866

Moses Breaks the Tables of the Law

Coming down from the mountain to find the people dancing before the golden calf, Moses throws down the tablets of the law and shatters them at the foot of Sinai (Exodus 32). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

Moses Breaks the Tables of the Law by Gustave Doré depicting Exodus 32:19
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), La Grande Bible de Tours, 1866.Source

Depicted passages

Exodus 32:19-20Primary
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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