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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Gustave Dore: One of My Three Favorite Artists

Gustave Dore is one of my three favorite artists; all of which died on my birthday. Albrecht Durer, Gustov Dore, and Salvador Dali will die on my birthday. Plus if you have not noticed, all of our last names start with D.   D as in Dowgin...

In fact the three of us have a sense for the macabre. Dore and Durer have the most in common with their engravings over us all though.

At the age of fifteen Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le Journal pour rire,[1] and subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.

In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron.[2] This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated English Bible. In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions 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. His illustration of Baron Munchhausen was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's character of the same name. 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.[6]


 
Doré's illustrations for the English Bible (1866) were a great success. Doré's later work included illustrations for new editions of 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. Doré's work also appeared in the weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News.

Doré  continued illustrating books until his death in Paris following a short illness. The city's Père Lachaise Cemetery contains his grave.


Gallery

Gallery of Gustave Doré
The Judgment of Solomon 
Illustration: Orlando Furioso 
Illustration: Orlando Furioso 
Illustration: Orlando Furioso 
Illustration: Paradise Lost 
Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton's Paradise Lost c. 1866 
The Heavenly Hosts, c. 1866, illustration to Paradise Lost 
Illustration: Death Depicted as the Grim Reaper on Top of the Moon from "The Raven
Doré illustrated several fairy tales: Cendrillon (or Cinderella
Camelot, an illustration for Idylls of the King 
Merlin advising King Arthur, an illustration for Idylls of the King 
Charon, from the Divine Comedy 
Charon herds the sinners onto his boat, taking them to be judged, from the Divine Comedy 
Mohammed, from the Divine Comedy 
Illustration: Dante is accepted as an equal by the great Greek and Roman poets, from the Divine Comedy 
The Tempest of Hell in the Divine Comedy 
La Défense Nationale, bronze sculpture, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas 
The first ascent of the Matterhorn 
The fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 
Over London by Rail, c. 1870. From London: A Pilgrimage 
Landscape in Scotland, ca. 1878, Walters Art Museum 
The council of the rats 
Death on the pale horse, Bible illustration 

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):
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 [9]
1854 Rabelais Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ... 1 vol. 4to. Frontis. & 15 J.Bry Ainé, Paris [10]
1855 Honoré de Balzac Les Contes Drôlatiques
425 Société Générale de la Libraire, and in Le Journal pour Tous [11]
1856
Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon 1 vol in 8vo 123 Librairie Nouvelle [12]
1856
Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival
48
[12]
1856
La Légende du Juif Errant 1 vol. grand in folio 12 Image:Wandering jew title page.jpg Michel Lévy [12]
1857[13] Dante Alighieri L'Enfer
70[citation needed]
[14]
1857 autumn Ed. de La Bédollière Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements 1 vol in 4to 150 Barba [15]
1857 autumn Valéry Vernier Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,
one large page Dentu [15]
1860–1862 Thomas Mayne Reid L'Habitation du Désert, 1 vol. in 16mo 60 Hachette [15]
1860–1862 Ann S. Stevens La Fille du Grand Chieftain 1 vol. 15
[15]
1860–1862 M. V. Victor Flêche d'Or 1 vol. 13
[15]
1860–1862 E. S. Ellis L'Ange des Frontières 1 vol. 10
[15]
1860–1862 N. W. Buxted Les Vierges de la Forêt 1 vol. 10
[15]
1860 William Shakespeare The Tempest 1 vol. in 4to
(London) [15]
1861
Les Figures du Temps, 1 vol. in 12mo
(Paris) [15]
1861 Plouvier and Vincent Les Chansons d'Autrefois in 12mo
Coulon and Pineau, Paris [15]
1861 Edmond About[16] Le Roi des Montagnes 1 vol. in 8vo 157 Hachette and Co., Paris [15]
1862 Saintine Les Mythologies du Rhin 1 vol. in 8vo 165 Hachette and Co., Paris [15]
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[15] [15]
1862 Malte-Brun[17] Les États Unis et le Mexique 1 vol. in 4to
Brun, Paris [15]
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 [15]
1862 Charles Perrault Les Contes de Perrault
11
[18]
1866
Aventures du Baron de Münchausen, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils 1 vol.
(London) [15]
1863 M. Épiné Légende de Croquemitaine 1 vol. in 4to 177 Hachette [15]
1863 Gastineau La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère 1 vol. in 8vo
Hachette and Co. [15]
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 [15]
1863
Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault
100+ Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse [15]
1865 Gastineau De Paris en Afrique 1 vol. in 12mo
(Paris) [15]
1865 A. Masse L'Histoire d'un Minute 1 vol., 12mo
(Paris) [15]
1866 Victor Hugo Travailleurs de la Mer

Sampson Low and Co., London [15][19]
1865 E. Edgar Cressy and Poictiers 1 vol. in 8vo 50+ (London) [15]
1865 Thomas Moore L'Épicurien (French translation) in 8vo
(Paris) [15]
1865 Tom Hood Fairy Realm in folio
(London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler) [15]
1865 Quatrelles Le Chevalier Beautemps grand in 8vo
(Paris) [20]
1865 Chateaubriand Atala 2 vols, grand folio 80 Hachette Edition [15]
1866 Théophile Gautier Le Capitaine Fracasse 1 vol. grand in 8vo 60 Charpentier [15]
1866 G. La Bédollière Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique in 4to
(Paris) [15]
1866 Dante Alighieri The Vision of Hell

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [15]
1867 Dante Alighieri Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso

Hachette and Co. [15]
1866[21] 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. [15]
1866
La Sainte Bible, according to the Vulgate, new translation 2 vols. grand in folio 200+ Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England [15]
1866 John Milton Paradise Lost
50 Plates Cassell and Co. [15]
1867 La Bédollière La France et la Russie

(Paris) [15]
1867
Les Fables de Lafontaine 2 vols. in folio 8 large and 250 small plates Hachette and Co. [15]
1867
Les Pays-bas et la Belgique in 8vo
(Paris) [15]
1870 Thomas Hood (Poems) 2 vols. in folio 9 Plates Ward and Lock, London [15]
1870 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[22] grand in 4to 40 large and 3 small drawings
[15]
1873
New edition of Rabelais 2 vols. in folio
Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus [15]
1876 Louis Énault London 1 vol. in 4to 174 wood engravings Hachette and Co. [15]
1874 Baron Ch. Davilliers L'Espagne in 4to 309 wood-engravings Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co. [15]
1875 Michaud Histoire des Croisades 2 vol. medium folio 100 grand compositions Paris: Hachette and Co. [15]

Alfred Tennyson Idylls of the King


[15]
1877 Ariosto Orlando Furioso
36 drawings Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock) [15]
1884 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven


 ~Chris

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