Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860
Saul Rejected by God for Disobedience
Samuel tells Saul that to obey is better than sacrifice, and as the king clutches his robe and it tears, the prophet declares the kingdom torn from him (1 Samuel 15). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German Nazarene painter whose "Die Bibel in Bildern" (1852–1860), a cycle of 240 woodcuts, became one of the most widely circulated Protestant Bible picture books of the 19th century.