Awarded Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance (2019).
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Gustave Doré
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 a…
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culture · French illustrator and painter (1832–1883) · painter · illustrator · caricaturist · comics artist · lithographer · graphic artist · printmaker · sculptor · draftsperson · visual artist · also Gustave Doré, Gustave Dore, Doré, Dore, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Dore, G.ve Doré
Born 6 January 1832 · Died 23 January 1883 · Q6682
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1883· 2 entries
Died 1883-01-23.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1879· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1879).
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1869· 1 entry
Blanchard Jerrold, the son of Douglas William Jerrold, suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London
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1867· 1 entry
Had a major exhibition of his work in London
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1866· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of Carlos III (1866).
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1861· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1861).
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Awarded knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1861).
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1856· 1 entry
Produced 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew, which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène S
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1853· 1 entry
Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron
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1849· 1 entry
Continued to live with his mother, illustrating books until his death of a heart attack in Paris on January 23, 1883, following a short illness
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-01-06.
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