- ARTISTS Gustave Doré
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PAGES 126
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BINDING Softcover
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SIZE 7" x 10"
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WEIGHT 0.83 lbs
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CONTENT Engravings, etchings, and drawings
Paul Gustave Dore Louis Christophe Was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving.
Doré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire . Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics that were very popular. Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Cervantes, Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante.