Gustave Doré

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born

January 06, 1832 in Strasbourg, France

died

January 23, 1883

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The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th century. Doré became very widely known for his illustrations to such books as Dante's Inferno (1861), Don Quixote (1862), and the Bible (1866), and he helped to give European currency to the illustrated book of large . He was so prolific that at one time he employed more than forty blockcutters. His work is characterized by a rather naïve but highly spirited love of the grotesque and represents a commercialization of the Romantic taste for the bizarre. Drawings of London done in 1869-71 were more sober studies of the poorer quarters of the city and captured the attention of van Gogh. In the 1870s he also took up painting (doing some large and ambitions religious works)...more

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Books by Gustave Doré

Average rating: 3.98 · 15,340 ratings · 433 reviews · 134 distinct works

	The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré, Dante Alighieri 4.52 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" by Gustave Doré, John Milton 4.57 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Dore Bible Illustrations 4.34 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1934 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote 4.44 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Dore Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations by Gustave Doré, Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dore's London: All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage 4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dore's Illustrations for Rabelais by Gustave Doré, Stanley Applebaum, François Rabelais 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Dore's Illustrations for "Idylls of the King" 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Dore's Angels 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Dore's Illustrations for Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso": A Selection of 208 Illustrations by Gustave Doré, Ludovico Ariosto 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1980	My rating: