This 1903 illustration shows prayer in the desert and is based on a painting by Gerome. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880.

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