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Balaam and the angel
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Balaam and the angel

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert · 1554 · etching; engraving; paper

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

About this work

A landscape with a ruin. Centrally Balaam on his donkey. Balaam's donkey refuses to go further because an angel with a sword threatens the animal. Balaam strikes his donkey with a stick. The print has a Latin inscription.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineBileam (Balaäm) en de engel. 1554. Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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