![]() ![]() One of The Three Musketeers, on his monument to Alexandre Dumas the Elder in Paris In 1856 he produced 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew, which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated Bible. ![]() In 1853 Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. He also illustrated "Gargantua et Pantagruel" in 1854. Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Cervantes, Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics, like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854). Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work. At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire. ![]() Seven years later, he began carving in stone. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Biography Doré by Carolus-Duran (1877)ĭoré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. He created over 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses, allowing very large print runs to be published simultaneously in many countries. 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. 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. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( UK: / ˈ d ɔːr eɪ/ DOR-ay, US: / d ɔː ˈ r eɪ/ dor- AY, French: 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. ![]()
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