Moses Presenting the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites
published 1972, drawing dated 1973
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bound volume with 1 lithograph on first free end-paper and 1 drawing in colored crayon on title-page
Dimensions
image: 32 x 24.3 cm (12 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.) book: 32.5 x 25.5 x 2.8 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection
Accession Number
2011.60.96
About the Artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...