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Gustave Doré

January 07, 2023

This article is about the French artist. For other uses, see Doré (disambiguation).

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: /ˈdɔːreɪ/ DOR-ay, US: /dɔːˈreɪ/ dor-AY, French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings, especially those illustrating classic books, including 241 illustrating the Bible. These achieved great international success, and he is the best-known artist in this printmaking technique, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.[1]

Paul Gustave Doré
Photograph by Nadar, 1867
Born(1832-01-06)6 January 1832
Strasbourg, France
Died23 January 1883(1883-01-23) (aged 51)
Paris, France
Known forPainting, etching, illustrations

In all he created some 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were "duplicated in electrotype shells that were printed ... on cylinder presses", allowing very large print runs as steel engravings, "hypnotizing the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator", and being published simultaneously in many countries. The drawings given to the block-cutters were often surprisingly sketch-like and free.[2]


Biography

 
Doré by Carolus-Duran (1877)

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.[citation needed] At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire.[3] The illustrations of J. J. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work.[4] Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time.[5] In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics, like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (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.[6] 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,[7] for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845.[8][9][10]

 
One of The Three Musketeers, on his monument to Alexandre Dumas the Elder in Paris

In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, became so famous that they influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters.[11] 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.[12]

The government of France made him a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1861.[13]

Doré's illustrations for the Bible (1866) were 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 Bond Street, London.[14] In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold, the son of Douglas William Jerrold, suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London. Jerrold had obtained the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson (published in three volumes from 1808 to 1810).[15] Doré signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year, and he received the vast sum of £10,000 a year for the project. Doré was celebrated for his paintings in his day, but his woodcuts and engravings, like those he did for Jerrold, are where he excelled as an artist with an individual vision.[citation needed]

The completed book London: A Pilgrimage, with 180 wood engravings, was published in 1872. It enjoyed commercial and popular success, but the work was disliked by some contemporary British critics, as it appeared to focus on the poverty that existed in parts of London. Doré was accused by The Art Journal of "inventing rather than copying".[16] The Westminster Review claimed that "Doré gives us sketches in which the commonest, the vulgarest external features are set down".[17] But they impressed Vincent van Gogh, who painted a version of the Prisoners' Round in 1890, the year of his death. The book was a financial success, however, and Doré received commissions from other British publishers.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Death

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 on January 23, 1883, following a short illness.[18] At the time of his death, he was working on illustrations for an edition of Shakespeare's plays.[19]

Works

Doré was a prolific artist; thus the following list of works is not complete and it does not include his paintings, sculptures, and many of his journal illustrations:

Date Author Work Volumes / Format Illustrations Publisher Ref
1854 Gustave Doré Histoire pittoresque dramatique et caricaturale de la Sainte Russie, d'après les chroniqueurs et historiens Nestor Nikan Sylvestre Karamsin Ségur etc. 1 vol. 500 Paris: de Bry [20][21]
1854 Rabelais Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ... 1 vol. 4to. Frontis. & 15 J.Bry Ainé, Paris [22]
1855 Honoré de Balzac Les Contes Drôlatiques 425 Société Générale de la Libraire, and in Le Journal pour Tous [23]
1855 Jules Gérard La Chasse au Lion 1 vol. 12mo. 11 Librairie Nouvelle [24]
1856 Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon 1 vol in 8vo 123 Librairie Nouvelle [25]
1856 Victor Percival Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival 48 [25]
1856 La Légende du Juif Errant 1 vol. grand in folio 12 Image:Wandering jew title page.jpg Michel Lévy [25]
1857[26] Dante Alighieri L'Enfer 75[27] [28]
1857 autumn Ed. de La Bédollière Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements 1 vol in 4to 150 Barba [29]
1857 autumn Valéry Vernier Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme one large page Dentu [29]
1860–1862 Thomas Mayne Reid L'Habitation du Désert 1 vol. in 16mo 60 Hachette [29]
1860–1862 Ann S. Stevens La Fille du Grand Chieftain 1 vol. 15 [29]
1860–1862 M. V. Victor Flêche d'Or 1 vol. 13 [29]
1860–1862 E. S. Ellis L'Ange des Frontières 1 vol. 10 [29]
1860–1862 N. W. Buxted Les Vierges de la Forêt 1 vol. 10 [29]
1860 William Shakespeare The Tempest 1 vol. in 4to (London) [29]
1861 Les Figures du Temps 1 vol. in 12mo (Paris) [29]
1861 Plouvier and Vincent Les Chansons d'Autrefois in 12mo Coulon and Pineau, Paris [29]
1861 Edmond About[30] Le Roi des Montagnes 1 vol. in 8vo 157 Hachette and Co., Paris [29]
1862 Saintine Les Mythologies du Rhin 1 vol. in 8vo 165 Hachette and Co., Paris [29]
1862 L'Abbé Léon Godard L'Espagne, Mœurs et Paysages 2 vols in 8vo 4 Image:Moeurs et paysages title page.jpg Alfred Mame et Fils, Tours Image:Moeurs et paysages title page.jpg or Paris[29] [29]
1862 Malte-Brun[31] Les États Unis et le Mexique 1 vol. in 4to Brun, Paris [29]
1862 Histoire aussi intéressante qu'invraisemblable de l'intrépide Capitaine Castagnette, neveu de l'Homme à la Tête de Bois 1 vol. in 4to 43 Hachette [29]
1862 Charles Perrault Les Contes de Perrault 11 [32]
1862 Aventures du Baron de Münchausen, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils 1 vol. (Paris, Charles Furne) [29]
1863 M. Épiné Légende de Croquemitaine 1 vol. in 4to 177 Hachette [29]
1863 Gastineau La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère 1 vol. in 8vo Hachette and Co. [29]
1863 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha translation by Louis Viardot 2 vols. folio 370 Hachette and Co., Paris, and Cassell and Co., London [29]
1863 Charles Perrault Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault 100+ Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse [29]
1865 Gastineau De Paris en Afrique 1 vol. in 12mo (Paris) [29]
1865 A. Masse L'Histoire d'un Minute 1 vol., 12mo (Paris) [29]
1866 Victor Hugo Travailleurs de la Mer Sampson Low and Co., London [29][33]
1865 E. Edgar Cressy and Poictiers 1 vol. in 8vo 50+ (London) [29]
1865 Thomas Moore L'Épicurien (French translation) in 8vo (Paris) [29]
1865 Tom Hood Fairy Realm in folio (London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler) [29]
1865 Quatrelles Le Chevalier Beautemps grand in 8vo (Paris) [34]
1865 Chateaubriand Atala 2 vols, grand folio 80 Hachette Edition [29]
1866 Théophile Gautier Le Capitaine Fracasse 1 vol. grand in 8vo 60 Charpentier [29]
1866 G. La Bédollière Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique in 4to (Paris) [29]
1866 Dante Alighieri The Vision of Hell London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [29]
1867 Dante Alighieri Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso Hachette and Co. [29]
1866[35] X. B. Saintine Le Chemin des Écoliers 1 vol. in 8vo 450 Image:Le chemin des ecoliers title page.jpg (not all by Doré) Hachette and Co. [29]
1866 La Grande Bible de Tours, according to the Vulgate, new translation 2 vols. grand in folio 241 Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England [29]
1866 John Milton Paradise Lost 50 Plates Cassell and Co. [29]
1867 La Bédollière La France et la Russie (Paris) [29]
1867 Les Fables de Lafontaine 2 vols. in folio 8 large and 250 small plates Hachette and Co. [29]
1867 Les Pays-bas et la Belgique in 8vo (Paris) [29]
1870 Thomas Hood (Poems) 2 vols. in folio 9 Plates Ward and Lock, London [29]
1873 Rabelais New edition of Rabelais 2 vols. in folio Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus [29]
1876 Louis Énault London 1 vol. in 4to 174 wood-engravings Hachette and Co. [29]
1874 Baron Ch. Davilliers L'Espagne in 4to 309 wood-engravings Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co. [29]
1875 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in folio 39 engraved plates and 3 vignettes London: Doré Gallery [36]
1875 Michaud Histoire des Croisades 2 vol. medium folio 100 grand compositions Paris: Hachette and Co. [29]
Alfred Tennyson Idylls of the King [29]
1877 Ariosto Orlando Furioso 36 drawings Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock) [29]
1884 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven 26 steel engravings[citation needed] London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co. [37]
1890 Gustave Doré The Doré Bible Gallery Illustrated by Gustave Doré Philadelphia [18]

Reception and legacy

H.P. Lovecraft drew inspiration from Dore's Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrations in his formative years.[citation needed]

Gallery

  • Illustrations
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    The Empyrean, Dante's The Divine Comedy

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    Doré illustrated several fairy tales: Cendrillon (or Cinderella).

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    A Doré wood engraving illustration from The Divine Comedy

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    Drawing, A Backstreet in London, 1868, National Gallery of Art

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    Over London by Rail Gustave Doré c 1870. From London: A Pilgrimage

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    Ludgate Hill - A block in the Street, 1872. From London: A Pilgrimage

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    Crusades troubadours singing the glories of the crusades

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    Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré.

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    Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré, another one of the 500 pieces Doré created for the work.

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    Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré

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    Another example of Don Quixote (Don Quijote in Spanish) illustrated by Gustave Doré

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    Rabelais's Gargantua (English translation)

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    Engraving The Confusion of Tongues, 1865

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    Edyrn with His Lady and Dwarf Journey to Arthur's Court, in Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson, illustrated by Gustave Doré

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    La Belle au Bois Dormant - third of six engravings by Gustave Doré

References

  1. ^ Gustave Doré at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Mayor, Hyatt A., Prints and People, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, no. 677, ISBN 0691003262
  3. ^ Lyons, Martin (2011). Books: A Living History. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-60606-083-4.
  4. ^ Rose, Cynthia. 2020. J. J. Grandvill: A Matter of Line and Death. The Comics Journal. (accessed 19 July 2022)
  5. ^ "Books: A Living History" by Martin Lyons
  6. ^ Complete Works of Lord Byron illustrated by Ch. Mettais, Bocourt, G. Doré. Published by J. Bry, Paris, 1853. The version at archive.org is in French. The illustrations are not attributed to any one of the three named on the title-page. A handwritten note at page 5 remarks that another edition of 1856 made no mention of Doré among the illustrators, but his designs still appeared in the book.
  7. ^ Richard S. Levy, Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1, Oxford 2005, p 186
  8. ^ Zafran, Eric (2007). Rosenblum, Robert; Small, Lisa (eds.). "Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Dore". Yale University Press.
  9. ^ "eBay". 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013.
  10. ^ "Willis's Price Current: A Catalogue of Superior Second Hand Books Ancient and Modern ... to which are Added a List of New Publications and Current Notes for the Month". Willis and Sotheran. 21 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Gustave Doré". lambiek.net.
  12. ^ Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 252. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9
  13. ^ Kerr, David (2004). "Doré, (Louis Auguste) Gustave (1832–1883), illustrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67162. Retrieved 2020-01-29. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ McQueen, A. "Gustave Doré," in Nineteenth-Century Art, Highlights from the Tanenbaum Collection, London: 2015, p. 54.
  15. ^ "Introduction to The Microcosm of London (1808-10) – Romantic London". www.romanticlondon.org.
  16. ^ Ackyroyd, Peter (2005). London: A Pilgrimage (introduction). Anthem Press. pp. xix.
  17. ^ Chapman, J (1873). The Westminster Review, Vol 99. p. 341.
  18. ^ a b Doré, Gustave (1890). The Doré Bible Gallery, Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Henry Altemus. Philadelphia. p. vii. OCLC 636024924.
  19. ^ Lyons, Martin (2011). Books: A Living History. J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 135.
  20. ^ indyworld.com 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Gustave Doré's «Holy Russia» by Bill Kartalopoulos. INDY Magazine, Summer 2004
  21. ^ David Kunzle (1983). "Gustave Dore's History of Holy Russia: Anti-Russian Propaganda from the Crimean War to the Cold War". The Russian Review. Russian Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1983), pp. 271-299. 42 (3): 271–299. doi:10.2307/129823. JSTOR 129823.
  22. ^ Eleanor Garvey, A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest, 1988.
  23. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 183. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
  24. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 179. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
  25. ^ a b c Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 207. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
  26. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", pages 215. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt states that "In Doré's catalogue 'L'Inferno' figures amongst the works of 1857, and I shall therefore speak of it as belonging to that year's collection, although it was not brought out until 1860."
  27. ^ The vision of hell. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. Gutenberg. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  28. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", pages 212-227. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
  29. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", pages 241-243. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
  30. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", pages 63. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Gustave Doré, Edmond About, and H. Taine were more than contemporaries: they knew each other from college. Roosevelt quotes Doré, "...from that date [1847] until 1850, I occupied myself—sometimes well and sometimes badly—in finishing my studies at the Lycée Charlemagne. It was there that I was so fortunate as to have Edmond About and H. Taine for fellow-collegians."
  31. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", pages 241. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt attributes authorship to "Malted": "'Les États Unis et la Mexique,' by Malted (sic) (Brun, Paris, 1862), 1 vol. in 4to." She is most likely referring to either Conrad Malte-Brun or his son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, both noted French Geographers.
  32. ^ Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. 1974. Oxford University Press. p. 134.
  33. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré", page 242. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt implies, though does not specifically state, that a French publisher published this volume in 1865. For one, she places this reference with the other books published in 1865, for another, she uses the word also when mentioning that Sampson Low brought out a copy in London in 1866. Additionally, an English publication would most likely be translated and have a title of Toilers of the Sea. Roosevelt's line reads thus: "Victor Hugo's 'Travailleurs de la Mer', also in 1866, brought out by Sampson Low and Co., in London."
  34. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 242. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt states that the preface was written by Alex. Dumas fils
  35. ^ Although Blanche Roosevelt lists this book as being published in 1866, here Image:Le chemin des ecoliers title page.jpg is the title-page of an edition published five years earlier, with Gustave Doré drawings. Roosevelt is most likely mistaken.
  36. ^ Leblanc, Henri (1931). Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré, Paris: Ch. Bosse, p. 74.
  37. ^ Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 488. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.

Further reading

  • 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) ed.). Dresden: Verlag der Kunst.(521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)
  • Gustave Doré 1832–1883. Strasbourg: Musée d'Art Moderne. 1983.(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)
  • Fantasy & Faith: the Art of Gustave Doré. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007. (exhibition book: 250 illustrations, 40 in full-color, sometimes incorrectly listed as, "40 b/w, 120 color illustrations")
  • Kaenel, Philippe (2014). Doré: Master of Imagination. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-131643-0. (catalog of the exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay and National Gallery of Canada, 335 pages)
  • Bibliographie de la France (Journal General de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie) (annual listing of the books published in France)

External links

 
Wikisource has original works by or about:
Gustave Doré
  •   Media related to Gustave Doré at Wikimedia Commons
  • Works by Gustave Doré at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Gustave Doré at Internet Archive
  • Gustave Doré Digital Collection of Illustrations from the University at Buffalo Libraries
  • in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website  
  • Gustave Doré at Library of Congress Authorities, with 305 catalogue records

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This article is about the French artist For other uses see Dore disambiguation Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Dore UK ˈ d ɔːr eɪ DOR ay US d ɔː ˈ r eɪ dor AY French ɡystav dɔʁe 6 January 1832 23 January 1883 was a French artist as a printmaker illustrator painter comics artist caricaturist and sculptor He is best known for his prolific output of wood engravings especially those illustrating classic books including 241 illustrating the Bible These achieved great international success and he is the best known artist in this printmaking technique although his role was normally as the designer only at the height of his career some 40 block cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks usually also signing the image 1 Paul Gustave DorePhotograph by Nadar 1867Born 1832 01 06 6 January 1832Strasbourg FranceDied23 January 1883 1883 01 23 aged 51 Paris FranceKnown forPainting etching illustrationsIn all he created some 10 000 illustrations the most important of which were duplicated in electrotype shells that were printed on cylinder presses allowing very large print runs as steel engravings hypnotizing the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator and being published simultaneously in many countries The drawings given to the block cutters were often surprisingly sketch like and free 2 Contents 1 Biography 2 Death 3 Works 4 Reception and legacy 5 Gallery 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksBiography Edit Dore by Carolus Duran 1877 Dore 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 citation needed At the age of 15 Dore began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire 3 The illustrations of J J Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work 4 Wood engraving was his primary method at this time 5 In the late 1840s and early 1850s he made several text comics like Les Travaux d Hercule 1847 Trois artistes incompris et mecontents 1851 Les Des agrements d un voyage d agrement 1851 and L Histoire de la Sainte Russie 1854 Dore 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 Dore was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron 6 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 7 for a short poem which Pierre Jean de Beranger had derived from a novel of Eugene Sue of 1845 8 9 10 One of The Three Musketeers on his monument to Alexandre Dumas the Elder in Paris In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes s Don Quixote and his depictions of the knight and his squire Sancho Panza became so famous that they influenced subsequent readers artists and stage and film directors ideas of the physical look of the two characters 11 Dore also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe s The Raven an endeavor that earned him 30 000 francs from publisher Harper amp Brothers in 1883 12 The government of France made him a Chevalier de la Legion d honneur in 1861 13 Dore s illustrations for the Bible 1866 were a great success and in 1867 Dore had a major exhibition of his work in London This exhibition led to the foundation of the Dore Gallery in Bond Street London 14 In 1869 Blanchard Jerrold the son of Douglas William Jerrold suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London Jerrold had obtained the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann William Pyne and Thomas Rowlandson published in three volumes from 1808 to 1810 15 Dore signed a five year contract with the publishers Grant amp Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year and he received the vast sum of 10 000 a year for the project Dore was celebrated for his paintings in his day but his woodcuts and engravings like those he did for Jerrold are where he excelled as an artist with an individual vision citation needed The completed book London A Pilgrimage with 180 wood engravings was published in 1872 It enjoyed commercial and popular success but the work was disliked by some contemporary British critics as it appeared to focus on the poverty that existed in parts of London Dore was accused by The Art Journal of inventing rather than copying 16 The Westminster Review claimed that Dore gives us sketches in which the commonest the vulgarest external features are set down 17 But they impressed Vincent van Gogh who painted a version of the Prisoners Round in 1890 the year of his death The book was a financial success however and Dore received commissions from other British publishers citation needed Dore 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 Dore s work also appeared in the weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News citation needed Death EditDore 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 on January 23 1883 following a short illness 18 At the time of his death he was working on illustrations for an edition of Shakespeare s plays 19 Works EditDore was a prolific artist thus the following list of works is not complete and it does not include his paintings sculptures and many of his journal illustrations Date Author Work Volumes Format Illustrations Publisher Ref1854 Gustave Dore Histoire pittoresque dramatique et caricaturale de la Sainte Russie d apres les chroniqueurs et historiens Nestor Nikan Sylvestre Karamsin Segur etc 1 vol 500 Paris de Bry 20 21 1854 Rabelais Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel 1 vol 4to Frontis amp 15 J Bry Aine Paris 22 1855 Honore de Balzac Les Contes Drolatiques 425 Societe Generale de la Libraire and in Le Journal pour Tous 23 1855 Jules Gerard La Chasse au Lion 1 vol 12mo 11 Librairie Nouvelle 24 1856 Fierabras d Alexandrie Legende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon 1 vol in 8vo 123 Librairie Nouvelle 25 1856 Victor Percival Memoires d un Jeune Cadet par Victor Percival 48 25 1856 La Legende du Juif Errant 1 vol grand in folio 12 Image Wandering jew title page jpg Michel Levy 25 1857 26 Dante Alighieri L Enfer 75 27 28 1857 autumn Ed de La Bedolliere Nouveau Paris Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements 1 vol in 4to 150 Barba 29 1857 autumn Valery Vernier Aline Journal d un Jeune Homme one large page Dentu 29 1860 1862 Thomas Mayne Reid L Habitation du Desert 1 vol in 16mo 60 Hachette 29 1860 1862 Ann S Stevens La Fille du Grand Chieftain 1 vol 15 29 1860 1862 M V Victor Fleche d Or 1 vol 13 29 1860 1862 E S Ellis L Ange des Frontieres 1 vol 10 29 1860 1862 N W Buxted Les Vierges de la Foret 1 vol 10 29 1860 William Shakespeare The Tempest 1 vol in 4to London 29 1861 Les Figures du Temps 1 vol in 12mo Paris 29 1861 Plouvier and Vincent Les Chansons d Autrefois in 12mo Coulon and Pineau Paris 29 1861 Edmond About 30 Le Roi des Montagnes 1 vol in 8vo 157 Hachette and Co Paris 29 1862 Saintine Les Mythologies du Rhin 1 vol in 8vo 165 Hachette and Co Paris 29 1862 L Abbe Leon Godard L Espagne Mœurs et Paysages 2 vols in 8vo 4 Image Moeurs et paysages title page jpg Alfred Mame et Fils Tours Image Moeurs et paysages title page jpg or Paris 29 29 1862 Malte Brun 31 Les Etats Unis et le Mexique 1 vol in 4to Brun Paris 29 1862 Histoire aussi interessante qu invraisemblable de l intrepide Capitaine Castagnette neveu de l Homme a la Tete de Bois 1 vol in 4to 43 Hachette 29 1862 Charles Perrault Les Contes de Perrault 11 32 1862 Aventures du Baron de Munchausen traduction nouvelle par Theophile Gautier fils 1 vol Paris Charles Furne 29 1863 M Epine Legende de Croquemitaine 1 vol in 4to 177 Hachette 29 1863 Gastineau La Chasse au Lion et a la Panthere 1 vol in 8vo Hachette and Co 29 1863 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha translation by Louis Viardot 2 vols folio 370 Hachette and Co Paris and Cassell and Co London 29 1863 Charles Perrault Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault 100 Hetzels in Spanish by Ledouse 29 1865 Gastineau De Paris en Afrique 1 vol in 12mo Paris 29 1865 A Masse L Histoire d un Minute 1 vol 12mo Paris 29 1866 Victor Hugo Travailleurs de la Mer Sampson Low and Co London 29 33 1865 E Edgar Cressy and Poictiers 1 vol in 8vo 50 London 29 1865 Thomas Moore L Epicurien French translation in 8vo Paris 29 1865 Tom Hood Fairy Realm in folio London Ward Lock and Tyler 29 1865 Quatrelles Le Chevalier Beautemps grand in 8vo Paris 34 1865 Chateaubriand Atala 2 vols grand folio 80 Hachette Edition 29 1866 Theophile Gautier Le Capitaine Fracasse 1 vol grand in 8vo 60 Charpentier 29 1866 G La Bedolliere Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique in 4to Paris 29 1866 Dante Alighieri The Vision of Hell London Cassell Petter and Galpin 29 1867 Dante Alighieri Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso Hachette and Co 29 1866 35 X B Saintine Le Chemin des Ecoliers 1 vol in 8vo 450 Image Le chemin des ecoliers title page jpg not all by Dore Hachette and Co 29 1866 La Grande Bible de Tours according to the Vulgate new translation 2 vols grand in folio 241 Mame Tours Cassell and Co England 29 1866 John Milton Paradise Lost 50 Plates Cassell and Co 29 1867 La Bedolliere La France et la Russie Paris 29 1867 Les Fables de Lafontaine 2 vols in folio 8 large and 250 small plates Hachette and Co 29 1867 Les Pays bas et la Belgique in 8vo Paris 29 1870 Thomas Hood Poems 2 vols in folio 9 Plates Ward and Lock London 29 1873 Rabelais New edition of Rabelais 2 vols in folio Paris Garnier London Chatto and Windus 29 1876 Louis Enault London 1 vol in 4to 174 wood engravings Hachette and Co 29 1874 Baron Ch Davilliers L Espagne in 4to 309 wood engravings Hachette and Co London Sampson Low and Co 29 1875 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in folio 39 engraved plates and 3 vignettes London Dore Gallery 36 1875 Michaud Histoire des Croisades 2 vol medium folio 100 grand compositions Paris Hachette and Co 29 Alfred Tennyson Idylls of the King 29 1877 Ariosto Orlando Furioso 36 drawings Hachette and Co London Ward and Lock 29 1884 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven 26 steel engravings citation needed London Sampson Low and Co New York Harper and Co 37 1890 Gustave Dore The Dore Bible Gallery Illustrated by Gustave Dore Philadelphia 18 Reception and legacy EditH P Lovecraft drew inspiration from Dore s Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrations in his formative years citation needed Gallery EditIllustrations Jacob wrestling with the angel 1855 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Little Red Riding Hood The Empyrean Dante s The Divine Comedy Dore illustrated several fairy tales Cendrillon or Cinderella A Dore wood engraving illustration from The Divine Comedy Drawing A Backstreet in London 1868 National Gallery of Art Over London by Rail Gustave Dore c 1870 From London A Pilgrimage Ludgate Hill A block in the Street 1872 From London A Pilgrimage Crusades troubadours singing the glories of the crusades Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore another one of the 500 pieces Dore created for the work Miguel de Cervantes s Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore Another example of Don Quixote Don Quijote in Spanish illustrated by Gustave Dore Rabelais s Gargantua English translation Engraving The Confusion of Tongues 1865 Edyrn with His Lady and Dwarf Journey to Arthur s Court in Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson illustrated by Gustave Dore La Belle au Bois Dormant third of six engravings by Gustave DoreSculptures The Dumas Monument in Paris Le Poeme de la Vigne or The Vintage Vase version in San Francisco Cupid and Time modello in terracotta A clock with Time defeating Loves cast 1879 Maenads in a Wood 1879 plaster modello Museum of Fine Arts BostonPaintings Roland a Roncevaux private collection Paris La Sainte Trinite Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Ecce Homo Glynn Vivian Art Gallery La folie Glynn Vivian Art Gallery The Oceanids The Naiads of the Sea 1860s Paolo and Francesca da Rimini 1863 Le Christ quittant le pretoire 1867 1872 Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Le Christ quittant le pretoire Andromeda 1869 Chimei Museum Tainan Taiwan Soir en Alsace 1869 La Siesta Memory of Spain c 1868 Flower Sellers of London c 1875 Loch Lomond 1875 Landscape in Scotland ca 1875 Toledo Museum of Art Landscape in Scotland ca 1878 Walters Art Museum Mont Sainte Odile avec mur paien by 1883 The Vale of Tears 1883References Edit Gustave Dore at the Encyclopaedia Britannica Mayor Hyatt A Prints and People Metropolitan Museum of Art Princeton 1971 no 677 ISBN 0691003262 Lyons Martin 2011 Books A Living History Los Angeles Getty Publications p 135 ISBN 978 1 60606 083 4 Rose Cynthia 2020 J J Grandvill A Matter of Line and Death The Comics Journal accessed 19 July 2022 Books A Living History by Martin Lyons Complete Works of Lord Byron illustrated by Ch Mettais Bocourt G Dore Published by J Bry Paris 1853 The version at archive org is in French The illustrations are not attributed to any one of the three named on the title page A handwritten note at page 5 remarks that another edition of 1856 made no mention of Dore among the illustrators but his designs still appeared in the book Richard S Levy Antisemitism A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Volume 1 Oxford 2005 p 186 Zafran Eric 2007 Rosenblum Robert Small Lisa eds Fantasy and Faith The Art of Gustave Dore Yale University Press eBay 22 January 2013 Archived from the original on 22 January 2013 Willis s Price Current A Catalogue of Superior Second Hand Books Ancient and Modern to which are Added a List of New Publications and Current Notes for the Month Willis and Sotheran 21 January 2018 via Google Books Gustave Dore lambiek net Quinn Arthur Hobson Edgar Allan Poe A Critical Biography Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 p 252 ISBN 0 8018 5730 9 Kerr David 2004 Dore Louis Auguste Gustave 1832 1883 illustrator Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 67162 Retrieved 2020 01 29 Subscription or UK public library membership required McQueen A Gustave Dore in Nineteenth Century Art Highlights from the Tanenbaum Collection London 2015 p 54 Introduction to The Microcosm of London 1808 10 Romantic London www romanticlondon org Ackyroyd Peter 2005 London A Pilgrimage introduction Anthem Press pp xix Chapman J 1873 The Westminster Review Vol 99 p 341 a b Dore Gustave 1890 The Dore Bible Gallery Illustrated by Gustave Dore Henry Altemus Philadelphia p vii OCLC 636024924 Lyons Martin 2011 Books A Living History J Paul Getty Museum p 135 indyworld com Archived 2013 11 26 at the Wayback Machine Gustave Dore s Holy Russia by Bill Kartalopoulos INDY Magazine Summer 2004 David Kunzle 1983 Gustave Dore s History of Holy Russia Anti Russian Propaganda from the Crimean War to the Cold War The Russian Review Russian Review Vol 42 No 3 Jul 1983 pp 271 299 42 3 271 299 doi 10 2307 129823 JSTOR 129823 Eleanor Garvey A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest 1988 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 183 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 179 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 a b c Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 207 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore pages 215 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt states that In Dore s catalogue L Inferno figures amongst the works of 1857 and I shall therefore speak of it as belonging to that year s collection although it was not brought out until 1860 The vision of hell Translated by Rev Henry Francis Cary M A and illustrated with the seventy five designs of Gustave Dore Gutenberg Retrieved 24 December 2022 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore pages 212 227 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore pages 241 243 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore pages 63 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Gustave Dore Edmond About and H Taine were more than contemporaries they knew each other from college Roosevelt quotes Dore from that date 1847 until 1850 I occupied myself sometimes well and sometimes badly in finishing my studies at the Lycee Charlemagne It was there that I was so fortunate as to have Edmond About and H Taine for fellow collegians Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore pages 241 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt attributes authorship to Malted Les Etats Unis et la Mexique by Malted sic Brun Paris 1862 1 vol in 4to She is most likely referring to either Conrad Malte Brun or his son Victor Adolphe Malte Brun both noted French Geographers Opie Iona and Peter The Classic Fairy Tales 1974 Oxford University Press p 134 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 242 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt implies though does not specifically state that a French publisher published this volume in 1865 For one she places this reference with the other books published in 1865 for another she uses the word also when mentioning that Sampson Low brought out a copy in London in 1866 Additionally an English publication would most likely be translated and have a title of Toilers of the Sea Roosevelt s line reads thus Victor Hugo s Travailleurs de la Mer also in 1866 brought out by Sampson Low and Co in London Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 242 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Roosevelt states that the preface was written by Alex Dumas fils Although Blanche Roosevelt lists this book as being published in 1866 here Image Le chemin des ecoliers title page jpg is the title page of an edition published five years earlier with Gustave Dore drawings Roosevelt is most likely mistaken Leblanc Henri 1931 Catalogue de l oeuvre complet de Gustave Dore Paris Ch Bosse p 74 Roosevelt Blanche Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore page 488 Cassell amp Company Limited New York 1885 Further reading EditDelorme Rene 1879 Gustave Dore Paris Librairie d Art 80 illustrations earliest photogravures of Dore paintings Roosevelt Blanche 1885 Life and Reminiscence of Gustave Dore New York Cassell amp Co Ltd 141 illustrations Jerrold Blanchard 1891 The Life of Gustave Dore London W H Allen amp Co Ltd 138 illustrations Valmy Baysse J 1930 Gustave Dore L Art et la Vie Paris Editions Marcel Seheur 314 illustrations Deze Louis 1930 Gustave Dore Bibliographie et catalogue complet de l oeuvre Paris Editions Marcel Seheur 103 illustrations LeBlanc Henri 1931 Catalogue de l oeuvre complet de Gustave Dore Paris Ch Bosse 30 illustrations Farner Konrad 1963 Gustave Dore der Industrialisierte Romantiker 2V ed Dresden Verlag der Kunst 521 illustrations reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures Gustave Dore 1832 1883 Strasbourg Musee d Art Moderne 1983 exhibition book 591 illustrations Renonciat Annie 1983 La vie et l oeuvre de Gustave Dore Paris ACR Edition 343 illustrations Malan Dan 1995 Gustave Dore Adrift on Dreams of Splendor St Louis MCE Publishing Co 500 illustrations Fantasy amp Faith the Art of Gustave Dore New Haven Yale University Press 2007 exhibition book 250 illustrations 40 in full color sometimes incorrectly listed as 40 b w 120 color illustrations Kaenel Philippe 2014 Dore Master of Imagination Paris Flammarion ISBN 978 2 08 131643 0 catalog of the exhibition held at Musee d Orsay and National Gallery of Canada 335 pages Bibliographie de la France Journal General de l Imprimerie et de la Librairie annual listing of the books published in France External links Edit Wikisource has original works by or about Gustave Dore Media related to Gustave Dore at Wikimedia Commons Works by Gustave Dore at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Gustave Dore at Internet Archive Gustave Dore Digital Collection of Illustrations from the University at Buffalo Libraries Gustave Dore in American public collections on the French Sculpture Census website Gustave Dore at Library of Congress Authorities with 305 catalogue records Portal Visual arts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gustave Dore amp oldid 1131100306, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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