Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Doré (French pronunciation: ​[pɔl ɡystav dɔʁe]; January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Most of Doré's work was wood engraving and steel engraving.

Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré by Nadar, 1867
Born	(1832-01-06)January 6, 1832 Strasbourg, France
Died	January 23, 1883(1883-01-23) (aged 51) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Art (Painting, engraving, Illustration)

Biography

Doré was born in Strasbourg. His first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. As a young man, he began work as a literary illustrator in Paris. He was hired to illustrate scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.

In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. British publishers asked him to do more work, including a new illustrated English Bible. Ten years later, he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote. His images of the knight and Sancho Panza have influenced later readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of how the two characters looked. Doré also illustrated an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" with larger than usual pages. He was paid 30,000 francs by the publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883.^[1]

Doré's English Bible (1866) was a great success, and in 1867 Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London. The Doré Gallery in Covelant Bond Street opened after the show. In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold suggested that they work together to make a complete portrait of London. Jerrold got the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808. Doré signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co. He had to stay in London for three months each year. He was paid £10,000 a year for the project.

The completed book, London: A Pilgrimage, was published in 1872. It had 180 engravings. The book was successful financially and influenced many people. However, many critics at the time disliked it. Some of these critics wrote that Doré paid too much attention to the poverty in parts of London.

His later works included 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. His work also appeared in the Illustrated London News.

He continued to illustrate books until he died in Paris after a short illness in 1883. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Gallery

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  Illustration 14 from The Raven
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  Illustration 15 from The Raven for the line "Perched upon a bust of Pallas."
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  The song of Deborah
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  Illustration 14 from Orlando Furioso
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  A hippogriff from Orlando Furioso
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  Satan from Paradise Lost
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  Confusion of Tongues–The Tower of Babel
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  From The Rime of Ancient Mariner
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  From Idylls of the King
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  Paradiso Canto 31
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  Purgatorio Canto 12
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  Inferno Canto 5
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  Inferno Charon crossing the River Styx
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  Don Quixote

List of works

Doré made many works of art. This list is very long, but does not include every piece of art that Doré made. It does not include his sculptures and paintings. Also, many journal illustrations are not listed.

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	[2]
1854	Rabelais	Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ...	1 vol. 4to.	Frontis. & 15	J.Bry Ainé, Paris	[3]
1855	Honoré de Balzac	Les Contes Drôlatiques		425	Société Générale de la Libraire, and in Le Journal pour Tous	[4]
1856		Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon	1 vol in 8vo	123	Librairie Nouvelle	[5]
1856		Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival		48		[5]
1856		La Légende du Juif Errant	1 vol. grand in folio	12 Image:Wandering jew title page.jpg	Michel Lévy	[5]
1857[6]	Dante Alighieri	L'Enfer		70[7]		[8]
1857 autumn	Ed. de La Bédollière	Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements	1 vol in 4to	150	Barba	[9]
1857 autumn	Valéry Vernier	Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,		one large page	Dentu	[9]
1860–1862	Thomas Mayne Reid	L'Habitation du Désert,	1 vol. in 16mo	60	Hachette	[9]
1860–1862	Ann S. Stevens	La Fille du Grand Chieftain	1 vol.	15		[9]
1860–1862	M. V. Victor	Flêche d'Or	1 vol.	13		[9]
1860–1862	E. S. Ellis	L'Ange des Frontières	1 vol.	10		[9]
1860–1862	N. W. Buxted	Les Vierges de la Forêt	1 vol.	10		[9]
1860	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	1 vol. in 4to		(London)	[9]
1861		Les Figures du Temps,	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	[9]
1861	Plouvier and Vincent	Les Chansons d'Autrefois	in 12mo		Coulon and Pineau, Paris	[9]
1861	Edmond About[10]	Le Roi des Montagnes	1 vol. in 8vo	157	Hachette and Co., Paris	[9]
1862	Saintine	Les Mythologies du Rhin	1 vol. in 8vo	165	Hachette and Co., Paris	[9]
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[9]	[9]
1862	Malte-Brun[11]	Les États Unis et le Mexique	1 vol. in 4to		Brun, Paris	[9]
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	[9]
1866		Aventures du Baron de Münchausen, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils	1 vol.		(London)	[9]
1863	M. Épiné	Légende de Croquemitaine	1 vol. in 4to	177	Hachette	[9]
1863	Gastineau	La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère	1 vol. in 8vo		Hachette and Co.	[9]
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	[9]
1863		Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault		100+	Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse	[9]
1865	Gastineau	De Paris en Afrique	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	[9]
1865	A. Masse	L'Histoire d'un Minute	1 vol., 12mo		(Paris)	[9]
1866	Victor Hugo	Travailleurs de la Mer			Sampson Low and Co., London	[9][12]
1865	E. Edgar	Cressy and Poictiers	1 vol. in 8vo	50+	(London)	[9]
1865	Thomas Moore	L'Épicurien (French translation)	in 8vo		(Paris)	[9]
1865		Falmy Realm	in folio		(London)	[9]
1865	Quatrelles	Le Chevalier Beautemps	grand in 8vo		(Paris)	[13]
1865	Chateaubriand	Atala	2 vols, grand folio	80	Hachette Edition	[9]
1866	Théophile Gautier	Le Capitaine Fracasse	1 vol. grand in 8vo	60	Charpentier	[9]
1866	G. La Bédollière	Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique	in 4to		(Paris)	[9]
1867	Dante Alighieri	Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso			Hachette and Co.	[9]
1866[14]	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.	[9]
1866		La Sainte Bible, according to the Vulgate, new translation	2 vols. grand in folio	200+	Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England	[9]
1866	John Milton	Paradise Lost			Cassell and Co.	[9]
1867	La Bédollière	La France et la Russie			(Paris)	[9]
1867		Les Fables de Lafontaine	2 vols. in folio	8 large and 250 small plates	Hachette and Co.	[9]
1867		Les Pays-bas et la Belgique	in 8vo		(Paris)	[9]
1870	Thomas Hood	(Poems)	2 vols. in folio		Ward and Lock, London	[9]
1870	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[15]	grand in 4to	40 large and 3 small drawings		[9]
1873		New edition of Rabelais	2 vols. in folio		Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus	[9]
1876	Louis Énault	London	1 vol. in 4to	174 wood engravings	Hachette and Co.	[9]
1874	Baron Ch. Davilliers	L'Espagne	in 4to	309 wood-engravings	Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co.	[9]
1875	Michaud	Histoire des Croisades	2 vol. medium folio	100 grand compositions	Paris: Hachette and Co.	[9]
	Alfred Tennyson	Idylls of the King				[9]
1877	Ariosto	Orlando Furioso		36 drawings	Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock)	[9]
1884	Edgar Allan Poe	The Raven		26 steel engravings[7]	London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co.	[16]

References

1. Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 252. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9
2. indyworld.com Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Gustave Doré's «Holy Russia» by Bill Kartalopoulos. INDY Magazine, Summer 2004
3. Eleanor Garvey, A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest, 1988.
4. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 183. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
5. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 207. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
6. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 215. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt states that "In Doré's catalogue 'L'Inferno' figures amongst the works of 1857, and I shall therefore speak of it as belonging to that year's collection, although it was not brought out until 1860."
7. This reference needs attribution.
8. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 212-227. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
9. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 241-243. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
10. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 63. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Gustave Doré, Edmond About, and H. Taine were more than contemporaries: they knew each other from college. Roosevelt quotes Doré, "...from that date [1847] until 1850, I occupied myself—sometimes well and sometimes badly—in finishing my studies at the Lycée Charlemagne. It was there that I was so fortunate as to have Edmond About and H. Taine for fellow-collegians."
11. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 241. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt attributes authorship to "Malted": "'Les États Unis et la Mexique,' by Malted (sic) (Brun, Paris, 1862), 1 vol. in 4to." She is most likely referring to either Conrad Malte-Brun or his son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, both noted French Geographers.
12. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 242. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt implies, though does not specifically state, that a French publisher published this volume in 1865. For one, she places this reference with the other books published in 1865, for another, she uses the word also when mentioning that Sampson Low brought out a copy in London in 1866. Additionally, an English publication would most likely be translated and have a title of Toilers of the Sea. Roosevelt's line reads thus: "Victor Hugo's 'Travailleurs de la Mer,' also in 1866, brought out by Sampson Low and Co., in London."
13. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 242. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt states that the preface was written by Alex. Dumas fils
14. Although Blanche Roosevelt lists this book as being published in 1866, here Image:Le chemin des ecoliers title page.jpg is the title page of an edition published five years earlier, with Gustave Doré drawings. Roosevelt is most likely mistaken.
15. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 242. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885. Roosevelt titles this book "The Song (sic) of the Ancient Mariner". The error possibly derives from reverse-translating the French title (Le Chanson du Vieux Marin) back into English.
16. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 488. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.

Bibliography

• Delorme, Rene (1879). Gustave Doré. Paris: Librairie d'Art.(80 illustrations, earliest photogravures of Dore paintings)
• Roosevelt, Blanche (1885). Life and Reminiscence of Gustave Doré. New York: Cassell & Co., Ltd.(141 illustrations)
• Jerrold, Blanchard (1891). The Life of Gustave Doré. London: W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd.(138 illustrations)
• Valmy-Baysse, J. (1930). Gustave Doré - L'Art et la Vie. Paris: Éditions Marcel Seheur.(314 illustrations)
• Deze, Louis (1930). Gustave Doré - Bibliographie et catalogue complet de l'oeuvre. Paris: Éditions Marcel Seheur.(103 illustrations)
• LeBlanc, Henri (1931). Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré. Paris: Ch. Bosse.(30 illustrations)
• Farner, Konrad (1963). Gustave Doré der Industrialisierte Romantiker ((2V) ed.). Dresden: Verlag der Kunst.(521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)
• Gustave Doré 1832-1883. Strasbourg: Musée d'Art Moderne. 1983.(exhibition book: 591 illustrations)
• Renonciat, Annie (1983). La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Doré. Paris: ACR Edition.(343 illustrations)
• Malan, Dan (1995). Gustave Doré, Adrift on Dreams of Splendor. St. Louis: MCE Publishing Co.(500 illustrations)
• Fantasy & Faith: the Art of Gustave Doré. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007. (exhibition book: 250 illustrations, 40 in full-color, sometimes incorrectly listed as, “40 b/w, 120 color illustrations”)
• "Bibliographie de la France", Journal Général de l’Imprimerie et de la Librairie, 1811 (annual listing of the books published in France)

Other websites

• Works by Gustave Doré at Project Gutenberg
• Doré's grave site at Cimetière du Père Lachaise
• German FTP with Dore illustrations Archived 2016-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Dore Bible Gallery
• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustrations of Gustave Doré Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
• The "Dore Vase" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a massive bronze that was exhibited to acclaim at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and later moved to San Francisco
• Gustave Doré's Illustrations for 'Don Quixote'
• More of Gustave Doré's Illustrations for 'Don Quixote'
• World of Dante Doré Dante illustrations in the World of Dante gallery
• Elbert Hubbard's account of the