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Gustave Doré

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WA-00117364

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120

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1589
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/gustave-dore
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

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Why this artist matters now

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (12)

Fairy Land

1881 · Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on cream wove paper

64.8 × 89 cm (25 9/16 × 35 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Calling of Samuel

1877 · Brush and brown wash and white gouache, with pen and black ink, on tan wove paper

36.7 × 29.2 cm (14 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Princess is Held Captive

1869 · Watercolor, with touches of gouache, and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card, laid down on blue card

44.4 × 36.4 cm (17 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Alpine Scene

1865 · Oil on canvas

195.5 × 130 cm (77 × 51 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La Rue de la Vieille Lanterne: The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval

1855 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 50.2 × 34.3 cm (19 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Sheet: 57.6 × 40 cm (22 11/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Soldiers under a Tree

1852 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash and touches of scraping, heightened with touches of white gouache, on lunette-shaped tan card, laid down on tan board

50.5 × 39 cm (19 15/16 × 15 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sir Lancelot Approaching the Castle of Astolat

1852 · Gouache with pen and black ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored), on cream wove paper prepared with a brown ink ground

42 × 31.7 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gevecht tussen ridders en reuzen

1842 · pen on pencil, ink, paper

width: 400 cm, height: 152 cm

Rijksmuseum

Bijeenkomst van oorspronkelijke Amerikanen in een bos

1842 · pen on ink, paper

height: 215 cm, width: 296 cm

Rijksmuseum

Wolk waarin figuren zweven

1842 · brush on gouache (paint), watercolor (paint), paper

height: 210 cm, width: 355 cm

Rijksmuseum

Schetsen van personen, waaronder een vrouwelijk naakt

1842 · brush on watercolor (paint), pencil, paper

height: 210 cm, width: 355 cm

Rijksmuseum

Studie van een soldaat uit het begin der 17e eeuw

1842 · pen on pencil, ink, paper

height: 125 cm, width: 199 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Artwork sources (3)

12 published of 115 catalogued · 12 with image

Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img
Rijksmuseum
5 published5 img
+ 1 more source · 103 catalogued, not yet published

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3 entries · 1 sources

Studie van een soldaat uit het begin der 17e eeuw
1842 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Bijeenkomst van oorspronkelijke Amerikanen in een bos
1842 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Gevecht tussen ridders en reuzen
1842 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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