The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-02-09

lUuSTQt6u COTT6SDOUueHCt fcU ANh" W cot
The best known artist Of modern times,
Paul Gustave Dore, died on the 23d Of Jan
uary, 1888. He had survived his extraoi din
airy popularity, which was due rather to fer
tilily and daring originality of genius than
TO that superiority Of conception and ther-
ough work which give enduring value to ar
tistic productions. During his short life he
IN de about fifty thousand designs founded
on a remarkable diversity Of subjects. He
developed surprising capacity in various de
part men,s Of ant, but did not Attain all ell
during Distinction In either. HIS work was
too difiu e, his undertakings too numerous,
10 give him more Than All ample Income and
| evanescent eminence. That chapter In the
history Of art covering Dores period Of &C
tivity will not record his name among the
immortal masters.
Doie was Sborn Al Strasbourg, January o.,
1893. He was taken TO Paris bt fore his
school boy days, and educated IN the capital,
al the Lycee Charlemagne. The bent Of his
genius was disclosed early in life. His first
| Autographs were produced when he vas only
| eleven years of age. When he was fifteen
his series Of sketches entitled "The Labors
| of Hercules" was exhibited in Paris. HIS
earliest efforts as All artist yielded him but
. precarious inct me, made chiefly by illus
tratipg cheap books and illustrated periodic.
ais. In ls4S certain sketches made by him
In pen and ink, were exhibited in the Salon,
Paris. Six years later his desig for "The
Wandering Jew gave him a reputation in
other countries beside France. In the same
year, 1854, he produced The most powerful
designs originated by him throughout bis
whole career, namely, those for Balzae's
{. Coiites Droistiques." His pictures Illus
In 1855, In WHICH aud the subsequent year he
illustrated the Bible. Iu 1865 aud the two
subsequent years he illustrated Tennyson' 5
al ~ of the King" "Christ Leaving the
P.etorium," gigantic picture, was txhib-
tied At the Salon, 1875 and in the same ear
and place his Entrance of Christ into Je.
rusalem." HIS last seven years Of the pro
digious activity which terminated only with
h 9 death, were in part bestowed OIL the illus
trallon of Shakespeare. The disease which
carried him of was Inflammation Of the
throat, the result Of severe cold.
The deceased artist lived n simple, quiet
life with his mother. He was a bachelor
married, as he expressed 1t, to his mothei
aud his art. He would facetiousiy ask hi,
friends, when they spoke Of his Wireless con
ditIon: "Must . man be . Turk to prove
that he 10 OF domestic turn ?" The two
wives he had were enough for HIM. He was
. strongly bnilt, athletic man, and In his
youth excelled In feais Of strength aud sgiI.
hy. His complexion and eyes were exceed
ingly dark, and bis hair raven black. V,sh
ors to his studi.', which was the best,provid
ed In all Paris, found him In one Of two
contrasting moOds--either the ffolicsoms
frank, childlike Dore, who was irresistibi,
aniable, or . ssiurnine, morbid being
ashamed Of himself and an affection 10 hi
friends. In review Of his life the necessi,y
is to deplore the fact thai Dores attainment
as an artist were vastly disproportioned Il
The originality, versatility, and power Of bill
!, | genius.