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Biography of Gustave DoréFrench Romantic illustrator, printmaker, painter and sculptor born 6 January 1832 - died 25 January 1883 Also known as: Paul-Gustave Dore, Louis Auguste Gustave Doré, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré; and was often spelled as Dore Gustav, Gustavo Dore, Gustaf Dore. DORÉ, LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE (1832-1883), French artist, the son of a civil engineer, was born at Strassburg on the 6th of January 1832. |
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Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. His talent was evident even earlier, however. At age five he had been a prodigy troublemaker, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later,
Dore Gustav began carving in cement. Subsequently, as a young man, he began work as a literary illustrator in Paris, winning commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.
In 1848 Gustavo Dore came to Paris and secured a three years engagement on the Journal pour rire. His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and among the books Doré illustrated in rapid succession were Balzac's Contes drolatiques [Droll Tales] (1855), Dante's Inferno (1861), Don Quixote (1863), The Bible (1866), Dore Paradise Lost (1866), and the paintings of Rabelais (1873). |
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| 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 1856 he produced twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Ranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. | |||||||
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In the 1860s Gustaf Dore 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. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper
and Brothers in 1883.
He painted also many large and ambitious Gustave Doré paintings of religious or historical character, and made some success as a sculptor, his statue of Alexandre Dumas in Paris being perhaps the best-known Dore art in this line. Gustave Doré died on the 25th of January 1883. |
| The later Dore works included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost Dore, 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. Gustave Doré continued to illustrate books until his death in Paris following a short illness. The city's Père Lachaise Cemetery contains his grave. |
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