GUSTAVE DORE
French illustrator (1832-1883)
Biography:
Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg in 1832. At the age of 13 he began illustrating his first litographies and by the age of 14 he had his first album published, called Les Travaux d'Hercules. When he was 15 he began working for the magazine "Journal pour rire de Philipon". That same year he exhibited his first ink drawings and he is recognized as a prolific and good artist. From 1851 on he also makes some religious sculptures and illustrates for other newspapers and magazines. In 1854, the editor Joseph Bry publishes Rabelais' works, illustrated with a hundred etchings.
More and more admired worldwide, this self-taght and exhuberant artist has illustrated more than 120 works between 1852 and 1883, published not only in France but also in England, Germany and Russia. He thus influenced many artists all around the world.
Works illustrated by Gustave Doré:
Bürger, Münchhausen, Frune, 1862, 158 ill.
Lord Byron, Oeuvre, éd. J. Bry.
Miguel Cervantes, Don Quichotte, 1863, 377 ill.
Théophile Gautier, Capitaine Fracasse, 1866, 60 ill.
Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer, 1867, 22 ill.
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, 1868, 248 ill.
Charles Perrault, Contes (Barbe-Bleue, Cendrillon, Le Chat Botté, Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Le Petit Poucet, Riquet à la Houpe).
François Rabelais, Oeuvres, éd. J. Bry, 1851, 104 ill.
Comtesse de Ségur, , Nouveaux contes de fées, Hachette, 1857, 20 ill.
Sindbad le marin, Maxwell, 1865
Critical analysis on Gustave Doré:
Annie Renonciat, Gustave Doré, Paris, A.C.R., 1983.