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.Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 252. 

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.

Gallery

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.

DateAuthorWorkVolumes / FormatIllustrationsPublisherRef1854 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 indyworld.com  Gustave Doré's «Holy Russia» by Bill Kartalopoulos. INDY Magazine, Summer 20041854Rabelais Oeuvres contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel ...1 vol. 4to. Frontis. & 15 J.Bry Ainé, Paris Eleanor Garvey, A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest, 1988.1855Honoré de BalzacLes Contes Drôlatiques 425Société Générale de la Libraire, and in Le Journal pour TousRoosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 183. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.1856 Fierabras d'Alexandrie, Légende Nationale traduite par Mary Lafon1 vol in 8vo123Librairie NouvelleRoosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 207. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.1856 Mémoires d'un Jeune Cadet, par Victor Percival 48 1856 La Légende du Juif Errant1 vol. grand in folio12 :Image:Wandering jew title page.jpgMichel Lévy1857Roosevelt, 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."Dante AlighieriL'Enfer|| ||70This reference needs attribution.|| ||Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 212-227. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
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|1857 autumn||Ed. de La Bédollière||Nouveau Paris, Histoire de ses 20 Arrondissements||1 vol in 4to||150||Barba||Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", pages 241-243. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.
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|1857 autumn||Valéry Vernier||Aline, Journal d'un Jeune Homme,|| ||one large page||Dentu  ||
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|1860–1862||Thomas Mayne Reid||L'Habitation du Désert,||1 vol. in 16mo||60||Hachette||
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|1860–1862||Ann S. Stevens||La Fille du Grand Chieftain||1 vol.||15||||
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|1860–1862||M. V. Victor||Flêche d'Or||1 vol.||13||||
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|1860–1862||E. S. Ellis||L'Ange des Frontières||1 vol.||10|| ||
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|1860–1862||N. W. Buxted||Les Vierges de la Forêt||1 vol.||10|| ||
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|1860||William Shakespeare||The Tempest||1 vol. in 4to|| ||(London)||
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|1861|| ||Les Figures du Temps,||1 vol. in 12mo|| ||(Paris)||
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|1861||Plouvier and Vincent||Les Chansons d'Autrefois||in 12mo|| ||Coulon and Pineau, Paris||
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|1861||Edmond AboutRoosevelt, 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."||Le Roi des Montagnes||1 vol. in 8vo||157||Hachette and Co., Paris||
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|1862||Saintine||Les Mythologies du Rhin||1 vol. in 8vo||165||Hachette and Co., Paris||
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|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||
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|1862||Malte-BrunRoosevelt, 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.||Les États Unis et le Mexique||1 vol. in 4to|| ||Brun, Paris||
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|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||
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|1866|| ||Aventures du Baron de Münchausen, traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils||1 vol.|| ||(London)||
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|1863||M. Épiné||Légende de Croquemitaine||1 vol. in 4to||177||Hachette||
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|1863||Gastineau||La Chasse au Lion et à la Panthère||1 vol. in 8vo|| ||Hachette and Co.||
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|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||
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|1863|| ||Les Contes de Perrault or in Spanish Los Cuentos de Perrault|| ||100+||Hetzels. in Spanish by Ledouse||
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|1865||Gastineau||De Paris en Afrique||1 vol. in 12mo|| ||(Paris)||
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|1865||A. Masse||L'Histoire d'un Minute||1 vol., 12mo|| ||(Paris)||
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|1866||Victor Hugo||Travailleurs de la Mer|| || ||Sampson Low and Co., London||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."
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|1865||E. Edgar||Cressy and Poictiers||1 vol. in 8vo||50+||(London)||
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|1865||Thomas Moore||L'Épicurien (French translation)||in 8vo|| ||(Paris)||
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|1865|| ||Falmy Realm||in folio|| ||(London)||
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|1865||Quatrelles||Le Chevalier Beautemps||grand in 8vo|| ||(Paris)||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
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|1865||Chateaubriand||Atala||2 vols, grand folio||80||Hachette Edition||
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|1866||Théophile Gautier||Le Capitaine Fracasse||1 vol. grand in 8vo||60||Charpentier||
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|1866||G. La Bédollière||Histoire de la Guerre en Mexique||in 4to|| ||(Paris)||
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|1867||Dante Alighieri||Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso|| || ||Hachette and Co.||
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|1866Although Blanche Roosevelt lists this book as being published in 1866, here :Image:Le chemin des ecoliers title page.jpg is the title page of an edition published five years earlier, with Gustave Doré drawings.  Roosevelt is most likely mistaken.||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.||
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|1866|| ||La Sainte Bible, according to the Vulgate, new translation||2 vols. grand in folio||200+||Mame, Tours; Cassell and Co., England||
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|1866||John Milton||Paradise Lost|| || ||Cassell and Co.||
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|1867||La Bédollière||La France et la Russie|| || ||(Paris)||
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|1867|| ||Les Fables de Lafontaine||2 vols. in folio||8 large and 250 small plates||Hachette and Co.||
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|1867|| ||Les Pays-bas et la Belgique||in 8vo|| ||(Paris)||
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|1870||Thomas Hood||(Poems)||2 vols. in folio|| ||Ward and Lock, London||
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|1870||Samuel Taylor Coleridge||The Rime of the Ancient MarinerRoosevelt, 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.||grand in 4to||40 large and 3 small drawings|| ||
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|1873|| ||New edition of Rabelais||2 vols. in folio|| ||Paris : Garnier; London: Chatto and Windus||
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|1876||Louis Énault||London||1 vol. in 4to||174 wood engravings||Hachette and Co.||
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|1874||Baron Ch. Davilliers||L'Espagne||in 4to||309 wood-engravings||Hachette and Co.; London: Sampson Low and Co.||
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|1875||Michaud||Histoire des Croisades||2 vol. medium folio||100 grand compositions||Paris: Hachette and Co.||
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| ||Alfred Tennyson||Idylls of the King|| || || ||
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|1877||Ariosto||Orlando Furioso|| ||36 drawings||Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock)||
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|1884||Edgar Allan Poe||The Raven'' 26 steel engravingsLondon: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co.Roosevelt, Blanche: "Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré.", page 488. Cassell & Company, Limited, New York, 1885.

References

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 

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