Gustave Doré1866

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai

Descending from Sinai with the two tablets, Moses does not know that his face shines from speaking with the Lord, and the people are afraid to come near him (Exodus 34). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai by Gustave Doré depicting Exodus 34:29
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), La Grande Bible de Tours, 1866.Source

Depicted passages

Exodus 34:29-35Primary
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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