LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE DORE (1832-1883)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 425
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE See also:DORE (1832-1883)
, See also:French artist, the son of a See also:civil engineer, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 6th of See also:January 1832
.
In 1848 he came to See also:Paris and secured a three years' engagement on the See also:Journal pour rire
.
His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and among the books he illustrated in rapid See also:succession were See also:Balzac's Conies drolatiques (1855), See also:Dante's Inferno (1861), See also:Don Quixote (1863), The See also:Bible (1866), See also:Paradise Lost (1866), and the See also:works of See also:Rabelais (1893)
.
He painted also many large and ambitious compositions of a
religious or See also:historical See also:character, and made some success as a sculptor, his statue of See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas in Paris being perhaps his best-known See also:work in this See also:line
.
He died on the 25th of January 1883
.
End of Article: LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE DORE (1832-1883)
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