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About Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré was a world famous 19th century illustrator. Although he illustrated over 200 books, some with more than 400 plates, he is primarily known for his illustrations to The Divine Comedy, particularly The Inferno, his illustrations to Don Quixote, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.
These art images include Doré's illustrations to The Divine Comedy, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Perrault's Fairy Tales, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, Contes Drolatiques, Fables de La Fontaine, Tennyson's Elaine, and others.
Latest additions: Reworked Leviathan in the Bible images. The Crusades and Rime of the Ancient Mariner (from the 1876 elephant folio edition) are now complete. Coming: Rest of Dante and proper labels for the Paradise Lost images, Idylls of the King and special selections of Gustave Doré Angels.
Dore Illustrations with Accompanying Text
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
List of Gustave Dore Illustrations by Book
Is it or is it not Doré? Some people think Witches Dancing at a Sabbath (La Danse du Sabbat) is Doré and some insist it isn't. This is made more difficult because many works signed by Doré are primarily works done by his apprentices under his direction so being true to type isn't the sole criteria. For example, for Rime of the Ancient Mariner, he had worked with some of his engravers so many times that he sketched the drawing directly on large woodblocks and the engravers completed the work. This is the other signature you see on many of the illustrations. In any case, I'm including it here until it's proven one way or the other. Doré did not sign the finished work unless it met with his approval, which could have been denied for any number of reasons. His signature does not appear on Witches Dancing at a Sabbath but his influence is still apparent.
Paradise Lost
The Raven and Other Tales
List of illustrations with engravers - page 1
List of illustrations with engravers - page 2
Plate 3 - ANATKH (Inevitability)
Plate 6 - Vainly I had Sought to Borrow
Plate 8 - Nameless Here for Evermore
Plate 10 - Darkness there and Nothing More
Plate 11 - Dreams No Mortal Ever Dared to Dream Before
Plate 12 - Something at My Window Lattice
Plate 13 - Open here I Flung the Shutter
Plate 14 - Not the Least Obeisance Made He
Plate 15 - Perched Upon a Bust of Pallas
Plate 16 - Wandering from the Nightly Shore
Plate 17 - Other Friends Have Flown Before
Plate 20 - Respite and Nepenthe
Plate 23 - Whom the Angels Name Lenore
Plate 25 - Back into the Tempest
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Plate 1: Wherefore stopp'st thou me?
Plate 3: Red as a Rose is the Bride
Plate 4: The Ship Fled the Storm
Plate 6: The Ice was All Around
Plate 9: I had done a hellish thing
Plate 10: Water, water, every where
Plate 11: The Death-Fires Danced at Night
Plate 12: Nine fathom deep he had followed us
Plate 13: The Death Ship Nears
Plate 15: Each cursed me with his eye
Plate 17: I looked upon the rotting sea
Plate 18: And yet I could not die
Plate 19: The moving Moon went up to the Sky
Plate 20: I watched the water-snakes
Plate 21: The rain poured down from one black cloud
Plate 23: The sails made on a pleasant noise
Plate 24: I fell down in a swound
Plate 25: Two voices in the air
Plate 26: Without wave or wind
Plate 27: The shadow of the moon
Plate 28: In crimson colors came
Plate 30: The skiff-boat nears
Plate 33: Oh shrieve me, holy man
Plate 34: Strange power of speech
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Paintings and Selected Illustrations
Enigma, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and others
The Crusades
The Ottomans Penetrate Hungary
Blondel Hears the Voice of Richard
The Discovery of the True Cross
Gerard of Avesnes Exposed on the Walls of Asur
Apparition of Saint George on the Mount of Olives
Edward III Kills his Attempted Assassin
Ilghazy Gives Gauthier his Life
Assassination of Henry of Germany
Crusade Against the Moors of Granada
Christian Chevaliers Captive at Cairo
Crusaders Surrounded by Saladin's Army
Godfrey Imposes Tributes upon Emirs
Hospitality of Barbarians to Pilgrims
Mourzoufle Parlaying with Dandolo
Muhammad II before Constantinople
Peter the Hermit Preaching the Crusade
Priests Exhorting the Crusaders
Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople
Richard and Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf
Bohemond Alone Mounts the Rampart of Antioch
Saint Francis of Assisi and the Sultan
The Crusaders Cross Mount Taurus
The Departure from Aigues Mortes
Barthelemi Undergoing the Ordeal of Fire
The Emirs Head Shown in the Seraglio
The Remains of the First Crusaders
Books Illustrationed by Gustave Doré
Gustave Dore 1832-1883: Master of Imagination
All 180 Illustrations from Londom, A Pilgrimage
About Art Passions
Art Passions began as a tribute to artists whose work I grew up, and whose work has meaning for me personally. The list of artists on artpassions.net, including recent additions to the site, as well as other information are availble on the home page.
Important: Please do not link directly to images at artpassions or download the entire site. See the FAQ for why this is a problem. If you download the entire site with an offline webstripper, you will take down the site. This will make me very grumpy and I will ban your IP address, entire domain or country, depending on how bad it was.
Questions? I may have answered it in the FAQ. If not, you can write to me using the link at the bottom of this page. I can't really help you appraise art by these artists, or help you write a term paper that's due tomorrow morning.
Resources
I try to keep Art Passions non-commercial, although there are some links to art prints and tile, and books. Since I'm retired, and Social Security does not go as far as you might think, I'll add a few more. Whatever resources I have for finding books or posters by these artists are listed in the FAQ and book recommendation / resources pages. Sets of art tiles, murals, and accent tiles by these artists are available via William Morris Tile, and many of these illustrations are available as art prints at Artsy Craftsy - the Art of Myth and Fairy Tale. If you don't find a print there, ask and I may be able to get it for you.
Books
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Where to Buy Gustave Dore Prints: You can find Dore art prints at Artsy Craftsy.
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