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Balaam and the Donkey
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Balaam and the Donkey

1585 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Balaam urges his donkey to go on and strikes her with a club, but she is stopped by an angel with a sword. In the landscape behind Balaam stand three warriors. Below the image is a reference in Latin to the biblical text in Numbers 13.

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Credit lineBileam en de ezel. 1585. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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