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Catalogue
- Year
- 1865
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 195.5 × 130 cm (77 × 51 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Paul Gustave Doré
Artist
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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1877 · Brush and brown wash and white gouache, with pen and black ink, on tan wove paper
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1869 · Watercolor, with touches of gouache, and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card, laid down on blue card
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1862 · Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache
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- Paul Gustave Doré
- Year
- 1865
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 195.5 × 130 cm (77 × 51 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1865-003771
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified