Gustave Doré

**Paul Gustave Doré** (; 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.

## 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.

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.

## 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||
|1854|Rabelais|_Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ..._|1 vol. 4to.|Frontis. & 15|J.Bry Ainé, Paris||
|1855|Honoré de Balzac|_Les Contes Drôlatiques_||425|Société Générale de la Libraire, and in _Le Journal pour Tous_||
|1856||_Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon_|1 vol in 8vo|123|Librairie Nouvelle||
|1856||_Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival_||48|||
|1856||_La Légende du Juif Errant_|1 vol. grand in folio|12 :Image:Wandering jew title page.jpg|Michel Lévy||
|1857|Dante Alighieri|_L'Enfer||70|||
|1857 autumn|Ed. de La Bédollière|_Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements_|1 vol in 4to|150|Barba||
|1857 autumn|Valéry Vernier|_Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,_||one large page|Dentu||
|1860–1862|Thomas Mayne Reid|_L'Habitation du Désert,_|1 vol. in 16mo|60|Hachette||
|1860–1862|Ann S. Stevens|_La Fille du Grand Chieftain_|1 vol.|15|||
|1860–1862|M. V. Victor|_Flêche d'Or_|1 vol.|13|||
|1860–1862|E. S. Ellis|_L'Ange des Frontières_|1 vol.|10|||
|1860–1862|N. W. Buxted|_Les Vierges de la Forêt_|1 vol.|10|||
|1860|William Shakespeare|_The Tempest_|1 vol. in 4to||(London)||
|1861||_Les Figures du Temps,_|1 vol. in 12mo||(Paris)||
|1861|Plouvier and Vincent|_Les Chansons d'Autrefois_|in 12mo||Coulon and Pineau, Paris||
|1861|Edmond About|_Le Roi des Montagnes_|1 vol. in 8vo|157|Hachette and Co., Paris||
|1862|Saintine|_Les Mythologies du Rhin_|1 vol. in 8vo|165|Hachette and Co., Paris||
|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||
|1862|Malte-Brun|_Les États Unis et le Mexique_|1 vol. in 4to||Brun, Paris||
|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||
|1866||_Aventures du Baron de Münchausen_, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils|1 vol.||(London)||
|1863|M. Épiné|_Légende de Croquemitaine_|1 vol. in 4to|177|Hachette||
|1863|Gastineau|_La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère_|1 vol. in 8vo||Hachette and Co.||
|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||
|1863||_Les Contes de Perrault_ or in Spanish _Los Cuentos de Perrault_||100+|Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse||
|1865|Gastineau|_De Paris en Afrique_|1 vol. in 12mo||(Paris)||
|1865|A. Masse|_L'Histoire d'un Minute_|1 vol., 12mo||(Paris)||
|1866|Victor Hugo|_Travailleurs de la Mer_|||Sampson Low and Co., London||
|1865|E. Edgar|_Cressy and Poictiers_|1 vol. in 8vo|50+|(London)||
|1865|Thomas Moore|_L'Épicurien_ (French translation)|in 8vo||(Paris)||
|1865||_Falmy Realm_|in folio||(London)||
|1865|Quatrelles|_Le Chevalier Beautemps_|grand in 8vo||(Paris)||
|1865|Chateaubriand|_Atala_|2 vols, grand folio|80|Hachette Edition||
|1866|Théophile Gautier|_Le Capitaine Fracasse_|1 vol. grand in 8vo|60|Charpentier||
|1866|G. La Bédollière|_Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique_|in 4to||(Paris)||
|1867|Dante Alighieri|_Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso_|||Hachette and Co.||
|1866|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.||
|1866||_La Sainte Bible_, according to the Vulgate, new translation|2 vols. grand in folio|200+|Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England||
|1866|John Milton|_Paradise Lost_|||Cassell and Co.||
|1867|La Bédollière|_La France et la Russie_|||(Paris)||
|1867||_Les Fables de Lafontaine_|2 vols. in folio|8 large and 250 small plates|Hachette and Co.||
|1867||_Les Pays-bas et la Belgique_|in 8vo||(Paris)||
|1870|Thomas Hood|(Poems)|2 vols. in folio||Ward and Lock, London||
|1870|Samuel Taylor Coleridge|_The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_|grand in 4to|40 large and 3 small drawings|||
|1873||New edition of Rabelais|2 vols. in folio||Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus||
|1876|Louis Énault|_London_|1 vol. in 4to|174 wood engravings|Hachette and Co.||
|1874|Baron Ch. Davilliers|_L'Espagne_|in 4to|309 wood-engravings|Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co.||
|1875|Michaud|_Histoire des Croisades_|2 vol. medium folio|100 grand compositions|Paris: Hachette and Co.||
||Alfred Tennyson|_Idylls of the King_|||||
|1877|Ariosto|_Orlando Furioso_||36 drawings|Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock)||
|1884|Edgar Allan Poe|_The Raven_||26 steel engravings|London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co.||

### Bibliography

- (80 illustrations, earliest photogravures of Dore paintings)
- (141 illustrations)
- (138 illustrations)
- (314 illustrations)
- (103 illustrations)
- (30 illustrations)
- (521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)
- (exhibition book: 591 illustrations)
- (343 illustrations)
- (500 illustrations)
- (exhibition book: 250 illustrations, 40 in full-color, sometimes incorrectly listed as, “40 b/w, 120 color illustrations”)
- (annual  listing of the books published in France)

## Other websites

- Doré's grave site at Cimetière du Père Lachaise
- German FTP with Dore illustrations
- Dore Bible Gallery
- SurLaLune _Fairy Tale Illustrations of Gustave Doré_
- 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 http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/references-documents/2009/09/22/gustave-dore

## Infobox (artist)

- **name**: Gustave Doré
- **image**: Doré by Nadar 1867 cropped.jpg
- **image size**: 225px
- **caption**: Gustave Doré by Nadar, 1867
- **birth place**: Strasbourg, France
- **death place**: Paris, France
- **nationality**: French people, French
- **field**: Art (Painting, engraving, Illustration)