Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden

1862·Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache·Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (23 × 29 cm)

Gift of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2014

Catalogue

Year: 1862
Medium: Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (23 × 29 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Paul Gustave Doré

Artist

Paul Gustave Doré

Painting

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, 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.

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