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Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré

French, 1832-1883
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Paul Gustave Dore Louis Christophe Was a French artist, printmaker , illustrator , comics artist , caricaturist , and sculptor Who worked primarily with wood-engraving .

Doré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire . Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics , like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes misunderstood et malcontents (1851), Les Dés-agrments d'un voyage d'aménément (1851) and L ' History of Holy Russia(1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Cervantes , Rabelais , Balzac , Milton , and Dante . He also illustrated "Gargantua et Pantagruel" in 1854.

In 1853 Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron . This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated Bible . In 1856 he produced 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew , which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845.

In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes 's Don Quixote , and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza , have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe 's " The Raven ", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883.

Doré's later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge 's Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Milton ' s Paradise Lost , Tennyson 's Idylls of the King , The Works of Thomas Hood , and The Divine Comedy . Doré's work also appeared in the weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News .

Doré never married and, following the death of his father in 1849, he continued to live with his mother , illustrating books until his death in Paris following a short illness. The city's Père Lachaise Cemetery contains his grave. At the time of his death in 1883, he was working on illustrations for an edition of Shakespeare's plays . The government of France made him a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1861.

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The judgment of Solomon

The judgment of Solomon (1890)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Religion
The walls of Jericho falling down

The walls of Jericho falling down (1866)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Religion
A little fairy comes at night, and from the moon she flutters down

A little fairy comes at night, and from the moon she flutters down (1870)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Mythology
L’Amour et la folie

L’Amour et la folie (1860 - 1869)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Mythology
The Monkey and the Dolphin

The Monkey and the Dolphin (1867)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Mythology
Bataille de Solférino

Bataille de Solférino (1860)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Garibaldi et les volontaires italiens. Episode du combat de Melazzo (21 juillet 1860)

Garibaldi et les volontaires italiens. Episode du combat de Melazzo (21 juillet 1860) (1861)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Le néophyte

Le néophyte (1875)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Palcos del teatro de los Italianos, en una representacion de la Sinora Ristori

Palcos del teatro de los Italianos, en una representacion de la Sinora Ristori (1856)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Prise de Sébastopol

Prise de Sébastopol (1856)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Rossini

Rossini (1869)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Le Christ bafoué

Le Christ bafoué (1858)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Religion
Confidences de M.lle Mars

Confidences de M.lle Mars (1854)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
La légende du Juif errant

La légende du Juif errant (1856)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
L’ange des frontières

L’ange des frontières (1865)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
Le Capitaine Fracasse

Le Capitaine Fracasse (1866)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
Les vierges de la forêt

Les vierges de la forêt (1866)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
Los monumentos de semana santa en Alsacia

Los monumentos de semana santa en Alsacia (1856)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
Escena de inundacion en las cercanias del cuartel de la Part-Dieu, en Lyon

Escena de inundacion en las cercanias del cuartel de la Part-Dieu, en Lyon (1856)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche

L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche (1869)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Posters
Le Serpent dénicheur

Le Serpent dénicheur (1857)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Animals
L’attentat

L’attentat (1871)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Mythology
The Witch

The Witch (1853)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Mythology
La ménagerie parisienne (Premier tirage) Pl.01

La ménagerie parisienne (Premier tirage) Pl.01 (1854)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Vol. 3, Paradise Pl.01

Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Vol. 3, Paradise Pl.01 (1871)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Illustration
Sketch for “The Wolf Turned Shepherd” (recto)

Sketch for “The Wolf Turned Shepherd” (recto) (c. 1868)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Drawings
Sketch of Hunting Scene (verso)

Sketch of Hunting Scene (verso) (c. 1868)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Drawings
Young Woman from Valence

Young Woman from Valence (c. 1862)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Drawings
A Dramatic Scene with a Fainting Woman

A Dramatic Scene with a Fainting Woman

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Drawings
Christian Martyrs

Christian Martyrs (1869-1871)

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Drawings
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