Wednesday, March 26, 2025

 Gustave Doré
(1832 - 1883)
 

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Doré

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria
1863
Oil on canvas
92.1 x 73 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436207

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