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Gustave Doré

1832 - 1883

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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: DOR-ay, US: dor-AY; French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Doré is the 77th most popular painter, the 227th most popular biography from France (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Painter.

Gustave Doré is most famous for his illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy. He also illustrated many other classic books, including Aesop's Fables, Paradise Lost, and Don Quixote.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustave Doré ranks 77 out of 2,023. Before him are Frans Hals, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Henri Rousseau, Pietro Perugino, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alfred Sisley. After him are Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Georges Seurat, and Berthe Morisot.

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Among people born in 1832, Gustave Doré ranks 9. Before him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Louisa May Alcott, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, and Nikolaus Otto. After him are José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, William Crookes, Ivan Shishkin, and Ármin Vámbéry. Among people deceased in 1883, Gustave Doré ranks 5. Before him are Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Édouard Manet, and Ivan Turgenev. After him are Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Dayananda Saraswati, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Joseph Plateau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 227 out of 6,770. Before him are François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Carloman I (751), Brigitte Macron (1953), Henry Cavendish (1731), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), and Alfred Sisley (1839). After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Michel Platini (1955), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Christian Dior (1905).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 20. Before him are Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Henri Rousseau (1844), and Alfred Sisley (1839). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), François Boucher (1703), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755).

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