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Gustave Doré
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French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
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Gustave Doré was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and comics artist. Born Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré in Strasbourg, he was educated at Lycée Charlemagne and worked in Paris. His professional career included employment with Le Charivari, and he spoke French. Doré created works in the genres of history painting, religious art, caricature, and portrait. Notable works include Andromeda, Enigma, and Les Saltimbanques.
Doré received the awards of Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour. He was unmarried to Alice Ozy. He died on 23 January 1883 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Following a funeral, he was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His works have been described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Strasbourg
- Place of death
- Paris
- Educated at
- Lycée Charlemagne
- Employer
- Le Charivari
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Enigma
- Field of work
- young adult literature
- Genre
- portrait
- Image
- Photograph of Gustave Doré by Nadar, between 1856 and 1858.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Gustave Doré
- date of birth
- 1833-01-06
- date of death
- 1883-01-23
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- topic's main category
- Category:Gustave Doré
- name in native language
- Gustave Doré
- unmarried partner
- Alice Ozy
- birth name
- Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré
- student
- Édouard Riou
- owner of
- Enigma
- ethnic group
- French
- writing language
- French
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1844-01-01
- end of work period
- 1883-01-01
- influenced by
- Gustave Courbet
- significant person
- William Blanchard Jerrold
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Gustave Doré, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Illustration for “Don Quichotte”: The fight against the herd of mutters
Illustration for “Le Petit Chaperon rouge”: The Meeting with the Wolf
Illustration for “La Belle au Bois Dormant”: The court state in a hundred years of sleep
Illustration of “Le Maître Chat”: The staged hangover calls the fieldworkers to pay homage
Illustration of “Le Petit Chaperon rouge”: The Wolf at the Grandmother’s Bed
Illustration of “La Barbe-bleue”: Blaubart presents the key
Illustration of “Le Maître Chat”: The false count in the lake
Illustration for “La Belle au Bois Dormant”: The King’s Daughters at the Old Woman by the Spindle
Illustration of “Cendrillon”: The shoe sample
Illustration for “Cendrillon”: Cendrillon on the Prince’s ball
Alpine landscape with torrent
[Las bodas de Camacho] [Material gráfico]
[Don Quixote reading books of chivalry in his study] [Graphic Material]
[Don Quixote reading books of chivalry in his study] [Graphic Material]
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Manche [Texto impreso]
Leben und thaten des Scharflinnigen Edlen Don Quixote von La Mancha [Texto impreso]
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( UK: /ˈdɔːreɪ/ DOR-ay, US: /dɔːˈreɪ/ dor-AY; French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) 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.
He created over 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses, allowing very large print runs to be published simultaneously in many countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gustave Doré” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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