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.

Contents 1 Life 2 Gallery 3 Works 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

[edit] 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 & Brothers in 1883.^[1]

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."

[edit] Gallery

Orlando Furioso	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel - 1855	Little Red Ridinghood	The Creation of Light
Jonah and the Whale	The Deluge	Illustration: Orlando furioso	Illustration: Orlando furioso
Illustration: Paradise Lost	Illustration: The Raven	Andromeda	Doré illustrated several fairy tales: Cendrillon (or Cinderella)
A Doré wood engraving illustration from The Divine Comedy	Over London by Rail, c. 1870. From London: A Pilgrimage	Merlin advising King Arthur, an illustration for Idylls of the King	'Le Defense Nationale', bronze sculpture by Gustave Doré, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas

[edit] 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):

List of Works

Date	Author	Work	Volumes / Format	Illustrations	Publisher	Ref
1854	Rabelais	Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ...	1 vol. 4to.	Frontis. & 15	J.Bry Ainé, Paris	[2]
1855	Honoré de Balzac	Les Contes Drôlatiques		425	Société Générale de la Libraire, and in Le Journal pour Tous	[3]
1856		Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon	1 vol in 8vo	123	Librairie Nouvelle	[4]
1856		Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival		48		[4]
1856		La Légende du Juif Errant	1 vol. grand in folio	12[2]	Michel Lévy	[4]
1857[5]	Dante Alighieri	L'Enfer		70[6]		[7]
1857 autumn	Ed. de La Bédollière	Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements	1 vol in 4to	150	Barba	[8]
1857 autumn	Valéry Vernier	Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,		one large page	Dentu	[8]
1860-1862	Thomas Mayne Reid	L'Habitation du Désert,	1 vol. in 16mo	60	Hachette	[8]
1860-1862	Ann S. Stevens	La Fille du Grand Chieftain	1 vol.	15		[8]
1860-1862	M. V. Victor	Flêche d'Or	1 vol.	13		[8]
1860-1862	E. S. Ellis	L'Ange des Frontières	1 vol.	10		[8]
1860-1862	N. W. Buxted	Les Vierges de la Forêt	1 vol.	10		[8]
1860	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	1 vol. in 4to		(London)	[8]
1861		Les Figures du Temps,	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	[8]
1861	Plouvier and Vincent	Les Chansons d'Autrefois	in 12mo		Coulon and Pineau, Paris	[8]
1861	Edmond About[9]	Le Roi des Montagnes	1 vol. in 8vo	157	Hachette and Co., Paris	[8]
1862	Saintine	Les Mythologies du Rhin	1 vol. in 8vo	165	Hachette and Co., Paris	[8]
1862	L'Abbé Léon Godard	L'Espagne, Mœurs et Paysages,	2 vols in 8vo	4[3]	Alfred Mame et Fils, Tours[4] or Paris[8]	[8]
1862	Malte-Brun[10]	Les États Unis et le Mexique	1 vol. in 4to		Brun, Paris	[8]
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	[8]
1866		Aventures du Baron de Münchausen, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils	1 vol.		(London)	[8]
1863	M. Épiné	Légende de Croquemitaine	1 vol. in 4to	177	Hachette	[8]
1863	Gastineau	La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère	1 vol. in 8vo		Hachette and Co.	[8]
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	[8]
1863		Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault		100+	Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse	[8]
1865	Gastineau	De Paris en Afrique	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	[8]
1865	A. Masse	L'Histoire d'un Minute	1 vol., 12mo		(Paris)	[8]
1866	Victor Hugo	Travailleurs de la Mer			Sampson Low and Co., London	[8][11]
1865	E. Edgar	Cressy and Poictiers	1 vol. in 8vo	50+	(London)	[8]
1865	Thomas Moore	L'Épicurien (French translation)	in 8vo		(Paris)	[8]
1865		Falmy Realm	in folio		(London)	[8]
1865	Quatrelles	Le Chevalier Beautemps	grand in 8vo		(Paris)	[12]
1865	Chateaubriand	Atala	2 vols, grand folio	80	Hachette Edition	[8]
1866	Théophile Gautier	Le Capitaine Fracasse	1 vol. grand in 8vo	60	Charpentier	[8]
1866	G. La Bédollière	Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique	in 4to		(Paris)	[8]
1867	Dante Alighieri	Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso			Hachette and Co.	[8]
1866[13]	X. B. Saintine	Le Chemin des Écoliers	1 vol. in 8vo	450[5](not all by Doré)	Hachette and Co.	[8]
1866		La Sainte Bible, according to the Vulgate, new translation	2 vols. grand in folio	200+	Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England	[8]
1866	John Milton	Paradise Lost			Cassell and Co.	[8]
1867	La Bédollière	La France et la Russie			(Paris)	[8]
1867		Les Fables de Lafontaine	2 vols. in folio	8 large and 250 small plates	Hachette and Co.	[8]
1867		Les Pays-bas et la Belgique	in 8vo		(Paris)	[8]
1870	Thomas Hood	(Poems)	2 vols. in folio		Ward and Lock, London	[8]
1870	Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[14]	grand in 4to	40 large and 3 small drawings		[8]
1873		New edition of Rabelais	2 vols. in folio		Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus	[8]
1876	Louis Énault	London	1 vol. in 4to	174 wood engravings	Hachette and Co.	[8]
1874	Baron Ch. Davilliers	L'Espagne	in 4to	309 wood-engravings	Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co.	[8]
1875	Michaud	Histoire des Croisades	2 vol. medium folio	100 grand compositions	Paris: Hachette and Co.	[8]
	Alfred Tennyson	Idylls of the King				[8]
1877	Ariosto	Orlando Furioso		36 drawings	Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock)	[8]
1884	Edgar Allan Poe	The Raven		26 steel engravings[6]	London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co.	[15]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 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"