Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Peter Denies Jesus

In the courtyard of the high priest, Peter denies three times that he knows Jesus, and at the crowing of the cock he goes out and weeps bitterly (Matthew 26). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Peter Denies Jesus by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Matthew 26:69
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), Die Bibel in Bildern, Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1860.Source

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About Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

1794-1872 · German

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.