Gustave_doré

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Gustave Doré
Born	January 6 1832(1832-01-06) France
Died	January 23, 1883 (aged 51)
Nationality	French
Field	Art (Paint, Engrave, Illustrate)

Paul Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.

Life

Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. Doré began work as a literary illustrator in Paris. Doré commissions include works by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. 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 English Bible. In 1863, Doré illustrated a French edition of Cervantes\'s Don Quixote, and his illustrations 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 and Brothers in 1883.Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 252. ISBN 0801857309

Doré\'s English Bible (1866) was a great success, and in 1867 Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London. This exhibition led to the foundation of the Doré Gallery in New Bond Street. In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold, the son of Douglas William Jerrold, suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London. Jerrold had gotten the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808. Doré signed a five-year project with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year. He was paid the vast sum of £10,000 a year for his work.

The book, London: A Pilgrimage, with 180 engravings, was published in 1872. It enjoyed commercial success, but the work was disliked by many contemporary critics. Some critics were concerned with the fact that Doré appeared to focus on poverty that existed in London. Doré was accused by the Art Journal of "inventing rather than copying." The Westminster Review claimed that "Doré gives us sketches in which the commonest, the vulgarest external features are set down." The book was also a financial success, and Doré received commissions from other British publishers. Doré\'s later works included Coleridge\'s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton\'s Paradise Lost, Tennyson\'s The Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy. His work also appeared in the Illustrated London News. Doré continued to illustrate books until his death in Paris in 1883. He is buried in the city\'s Père Lachaise Cemetery.

In "Pickman\'s Model", author H. P. Lovecraft\'s praises Doré: "There\'s something those fellows catch - beyond life - that they\'re able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. [Sidney] Sime has it."

Gallery

Works

Doré was a prolific artist; thus the following list of works, though extensive, is by no means comprehensive (e.g. it does not include his sculptures, paintings, nor many of his journal illustrations):

Notes

References

• Delorme, Rene (1879). Gustave Doré. Paris: Librairie d\'Art. (80 illustrations, earliest photogravures of Dore paintings)
• Roosevelt, Blanche (1885). Life and Reminiscence of Gustave Doré. New York: Cassell & Co., Ltd.. (141 illustrations)
• Jerrold, Blanchard (1891). The Life of Gustave Doré. London: W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd.. (138 illustrations)
• Valmy-Baysse, J. (1930). Gustave Doré - L’Art et la Vie. Paris: Editions Marcel Seheur. (314 illustrations)
• Deze, Louis (1930). Gustave Doré - Bibliographie et catalogue complet de l’oeuvre. Paris: Editions Marcel Seheur. (103 illustrations)
• LeBlanc, Henri (1931). Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré. Paris: Ch. Bosse. (30 illustrations)
• Farner, Konrad (1963). Gustave Doré der Industrialisierte Romantiker, (2V), Dresden: Verlag der Kunst. (521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)
• (1983) Gustave Doré 1832-1883. Strasbourg: Musee d\'Art Moderne. (exhibition book: 591 illustrations)
• Renonciat, Annie (1983). La vie et l\'oeuvre de Gustave Doré. Paris: ACR Edition. (343 illustrations)
• Malan, Dan (1995). Gustave Doré, Adrift on Dreams of Splendor. St. Louis: MCE Publishing Co.. (500 illustrations)
• (September 2006) Fantasy & Faith: the Art of Gustave Doré. New Haven: Yale University Press. (exhibition book: 160 illustrations, 120 in full-color)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Gustave Doré

• Works by Gustave Doré at Project Gutenberg
• German FTP with Dore illustrations
• Dore Bible Gallery
• Art Passions Doré online gallery
• Gallery of Illustrations by Gustave Doré
• Illustrationen zu Don Quijote. Arno Schmidt Reference Library. Retrieved on 27 March, 2005. (24 MByte PDF with 120 illustrations)
• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustrations of Gustave Doré
• Bible Illustrations by G. Dore:Christian website compiling Dore\'s numerous Biblical illustrations
• The "Dore Vase" in San Francisco\'s Golden Gate Park:A massive bronze that was exhibited to acclaim at Chicago\'s 1893 World\'s Columbian Exposition and later moved to San Francisco
• Gustave Doré\'s Illustrations for \'Don Quixote\'
• More of Gustave Doré\'s Illustrations for \'Don Quixote\'
• Dore-illustrations (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe, crusades, sketches) in the "History of Art"

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