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Gustave Dore The Enigma oil painting


The Enigma
Painting ID::  11371 		Artist: Gustave Dore
Painting: The Enigma
Introduction: 1871 4' 3 1/4'' x 6' 5''(130 x 195.5 cm)
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Gustave Dore Loch Lomond oil painting


Loch Lomond
Painting ID::  71012 		Artist: Gustave Dore
Painting: Loch Lomond
Introduction: 1875(1875) Oil on canvas 48 x 75 in. (121.9 x 190.5 cm)
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Gustave Dore Loch Lomond oil painting


Loch Lomond
Painting ID::  72168 		Artist: Gustave Dore
Painting: Loch Lomond
Introduction: 6 January 1832(1832-01-06) 23 January 1883 cyf
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Gustave Dore Les Saltimbanques oil painting


Les Saltimbanques
Painting ID::  73282 		Artist: Gustave Dore
Painting: Les Saltimbanques
Introduction: Gustave DorX (french painter), Les Saltimbanques [Magicians], 1874. cjr
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Gustave Dore Gustave Dore oil painting


Gustave Dore
Painting ID::  75301 		Artist: Gustave Dore
Painting: Gustave Dore
Introduction: English: Gustave Dore (french painter), Les Saltimbanques [Magicians], 1874. Location : Musee d'art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand. Type : oil painting. Dimensions : 224 x 184 cm (88 X 72 in). Français : Gustave Dore, Les Saltimbanques. Huile sur toile. Dimensions : 224 x 184 cm. Date 1874 cyf
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     (French pronunciation: January 6, 1832 - January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Dore worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. Dore was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. His skill had manifested itself even earlier, however. At age five he had been a prodigy troublemaker, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he 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 1853, Dore 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. A decade later, 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. Dore 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. Dore's English Bible (1866) was a great success, and in 1867 Dore had a major exhibition of his work in London. This exhibition led to the foundation of the Dore Gallery in Covelant Bond Street. In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold, the son of Douglas William Jerrold, suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London. Jerrold had obtained the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808. Dore signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year, and he received the vast sum of £10,000 a year for the project. Dore was mainly celebrated for his paintings in his day. His paintings remain world renowned, but his woodcuts and engravings, like those he did for Jerrold, are where he really excelled as an artist with an individual vision. The completed book, London: A Pilgrimage, with 180 engravings, was published in 1872. It enjoyed commercial and socioeconomical success, but the work was disliked by many contemporary critics. Some of these critics were concerned with the fact that Dore appeared to focus on the poverty that existed in parts of London. Dore was accused by the Art Journal of "inventing rather than copying." The Westminster Review claimed that "Dore gives us sketches in which the commonest, the vulgarest external features are set down." The book was a financial success, however, and Dore received commissions from other British publishers. . Related Artists to Gustave Dore : | Theodore Ravanat | William henry millair | Alexander von Humboldt | PULIGO, Domenico | Denis Dighton |

 

 

 
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