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 Deluge  Jacob wrestling with the angel - 1855  The Creation of Light  Jonah and the Whale  The Judgment of Solomon  The defenestration of Jezebel at Jezreel  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)  Don Quixote  Little Red Riding Hood  Camelot, an illustration for Idylls of the King  Merlin advising King Arthur, an illustration for Idylls of the King  Andromeda  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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