Gustave Doré 1832 – 1883

Death on the Pale Horse

engraving — 1865

Gustave Doré biography

This work is linked to Revelation 6:8

The Lamb of God opens the seven seals of a book "written within and on the backside". After the opening of the fourth seal, Death rides into the world on a pale horse. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him.

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