GUSTAVE DORé

'Paul Gustave Doré' (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, and illustrator. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.

Contents

Life

Works

Gallery

Notes

References

External links

Life

Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. Doré began work as a literary illustrator in Paris. Dore's commissions include works by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. 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. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."
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Doré's English Bible (1866) was a great success, and in 1867 Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London. This exhibition led to the foundation of the Doré Gallery in New 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 gotten the idea from ''The Microcosm of London'' produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808.
Doré signed a five-year project with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year. He was paid the vast sum of £10,000 a year for his work. The book, ''London: A Pilgrimage,'' with 180 engravings, was published in 1872.
''London: A Pilgrimage'' enjoyed commercial success, but the work was disliked by many contemporary critics. Some critics were concerned with the fact that Doré appeared to focus on poverty that existed in London. Doré was accused by the ''Art Journal'' of "inventing rather than copying." The ''Westminster Review'' claimed that "Doré gives us sketches in which the commonest, the vulgarest external features are set down."
''London: A Pilgrimage'' was a financial success, and Doré received commissions from other British publishers. Doré's 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''. Doré continued to illustrate books until his death in Paris in 1883. He is buried in the city's Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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):

List of Works

Date	Author	Work	Volumes / Format	Drawings	Publisher	Ref
1855	Honor%C3%A9 de Balzac	''Les Contes Drôlatiques''		425	Société Générale de la Libraire, and in ''Le Journal pour Tous''	[1]
1856		''Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon''	1 vol in 8vo	123	Librairie Nouvelle	[2]
1856		''Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival''		48		2
1856		''La Légende du Juif Errant''	1 vol. grand in folio	12[1]	Michel Lévy	2
1857[3]	Dante Alighieri	''L'Enfer		70[4]		[5]
1857 autumn	Ed. de La Bédollière	''Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements''	1 vol in 4to	150	Barba	[6]
1857 autumn	Valéry Vernier	''Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,''		one large page	Dentu	6
1860-1862	Thomas Mayne Reid	''L'Habitation du Désert,''	1 vol. in 16mo	60	Hachette	6
1860-1862	Ann S. Stevens	''La Fille du Grand Chieftain''	1 vol.	15		6
1860-1862	M. V. Victor	''Flêche d'Or''	1 vol.	13		6
1860-1862	E. S. Ellis	''L'Ange des Frontières''	1 vol.	10		6
1860-1862	N. W. Buxted	''Les Vierges de la Forêt''	1 vol.	10		6
1860	William Shakespeare	''The Tempest''	1 vol. in 4to		(London)	6
1861		''Les Figures du Temps,''	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	6
1861	Plouvier and Vincent	''Les Chansons d'Autrefois''	in 12mo		Coulon and Pineau, Paris	6
1861	Edmond About[7]	''Le Roi des Montagnes''	1 vol. in 8vo	157	Hachette and Co., Paris	6
1862	Saintine	''Les Mythologies du Rhin''	1 vol. in 8vo	165	Hachette and Co., Paris	6
1862	L'Abbé Léon Godard	''L'Espagne, Mœurs et Paysages,''	2 vols in 8vo	4[2]	Alfred Mame et Fils, Tours[3] or Paris6	6
1862	Malte-Brun[8]	''Les États Unis et le Mexique''	1 vol. in 4to		Brun, Paris	6
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	6
1866		''Aventures du Baron de Münchausen'', traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils	1 vol.		(London)	6
1863	M. Épiné	''Légende de Croquemitaine''	1 vol. in 4to	177	Hachette	6
1863	Gastineau	''La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère''	1 vol. in 8vo		Hachette and Co.	6
1863	Miguel Cervantes	''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' translation by Louis Viardot	2 vols. folio	370	Hachette and Co., Paris, and Cassell and Co., London	6
1863		''Les Contes de Perrault'' or in Spanish ''Los Cuentos de Perrault''		100+	Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse	6
1865	Gastineau	''De Paris en Afrique''	1 vol. in 12mo		(Paris)	6
1865	A. Masse	''L'Histoire d'un Minute''	1 vol., 12mo		(Paris)	6
1866	Victor Hugo	''Travailleurs de la Mer''			Sampson Low and Co., London	6[9]
1865	E. Edgar	''Cressy and Poictiers''	1 vol. in 8vo	50+	(London)	6
1865	Thomas Moore	''L'Épicurien'' (French translation)	in 8vo		(Paris)	6
1865		''Falmy Realm''	in folio		(London)	6
1865	Quatrelles	''Le Chevalier Beautemps''	grand in 8vo		(Paris)	[10]
1865	Chateaubriand	''Atala''	2 vols, grand folio	80	Hachette Edition	6
1866	Théophile Gautier	''Le Capitaine Fracasse''	1 vol. grand in 8vo	60	Charpentier	6
1866	G. La Bédollière	''Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique''	in 4to		(Paris)	6
1867	Dante Alighieri	''Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso''			Hachette and Co.	6
1866[11]	X. B. Saintine	''Le Chemin des Écoliers''	1 vol. in 8vo	450[5]''(not all by Doré)''	Hachette and Co.	6
1866		''La Sainte Bible'', according to the Vulgate, new translation	2 vols. grand in folio	200+	Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England	6
1866	John Milton	''Paradise Lost''			Cassell and Co.	6
1867	La Bédollière	''La France et la Russie''			(Paris)	6
1867		''Les Fables de Lafontaine''	2 vols. in folio	8 large and 250 small plates	Hachette and Co.	6
1867		''Les Pays-bas et la Belgique''	in 8vo		(Paris)	6
1870	Thomas Hood	(Poems)	2 vols. in folio		Ward and Lock, London	6
1870	Coleridge	''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''[12]	grand in 4to	40 large and 3 small drawings		6
1873		New edition of Rabelais	2 vols. in folio		Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus	6
1876	Louis Énault	''London''	1 vol. in 4to	174 wood engravings	Hachette and Co.	6
1874	Baron Ch. Davilliers	''L'Espagne''	in 4to	309 wood-engravings	Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co.	6
1875	Michaud	''Histoire des Croisades''	2 vol. medium folio	100 grand compositions	Paris: Hachette and Co.	6
	Alfred Tennyson	''Idylls of the King''				6
1877	Ariosto	''Orlando Furioso''		36 drawings	Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock)	6
1884	Edgar Allan Poe	''The Raven''		26 steel engravings4	London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co.	[13]

Gallery

Notes

1. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 183. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
2. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 207. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
3. 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."
4. This reference needs attribution.
5. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 212-227. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
6. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 241-243. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
7. 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."
8. 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.
9. 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."
10. 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
11. Although Blanche Roosevelt lists this book as being published in 1866, here [4] is the title page of an edition published five years earlier, with Gustave Doré drawings. Roosevelt is most likely mistaken.
12. 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.
13. Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 488. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.

References

★ Gustave Doré, , Rene, Delorme, Librairie d'Art, 1879, (80 illustrations, earliest photogravures of Dore paintings)

★ Life and Reminiscence of Gustave Doré, , Blanche, Roosevelt, Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1885, (141 illustrations)

★ The Life of Gustave Doré, , Blanchard, Jerrold, W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1891, (138 illustrations)

★ Gustave Doré - L’Art et la Vie, , J., Valmy-Baysse, Editions Marcel Seheur, 1930, (314 illustrations)

★ Gustave Doré - Bibliographie et catalogue complet de l’oeuvre, , Louis, Deze, Editions Marcel Seheur, 1930, (103 illustrations)

★ Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré, , Henri, LeBlanc, Ch. Bosse, 1931, (30 illustrations)

★ Gustave Doré der Industrialisierte Romantiker, , Konrad, Farner, Verlag der Kunst, 1963, (521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)

★ Gustave Doré 1832-1883, , , , Musee d'Art Moderne, 1983, (exhibition book: 591 illustrations)

★ La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Doré, , Annie, Renonciat, ACR Edition, 1983, (343 illustrations)

★ Gustave Doré, Adrift on Dreams of Splendor, , Dan, Malan, MCE Publishing Co., 1995, (500 illustrations)

★ Fantasy & Faith: the Art of Gustave Doré, , , , Yale University Press, 2006, (exhibition book: 160 illustrations, 120 in full-color)

External links

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★ German FTP with Dore illustrations

★ Art Passions Doré online gallery

★ Gallery of Illustrations by Gustave Doré

★ ''Illustrationen zu Don Quijote'' (24 MByte PDF with 120 illustrations)

★ SurLaLune ''Fairy Tale Illustrations of Gustave Doré''

★ Bible Illustrations by G. Dore:Christian website compiling Dore's numerous Biblical illustrations

★ 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' ''

★ Dore-illustrations (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe, crusades, sketches) in the "History of Art"