Gustave Dore
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was French, born in Strasbourg, and working professionally as an illustrator by fifteen. He produced designs for Dante's Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Milton's Paradise Lost, the Bible, Perrault's fairy tales and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. His London: A Pilgrimage recorded the poverty of the Victorian city. Doré also painted and sculpted, though the engravings carried his name across Europe and America.
About Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was French, born in Strasbourg, and working professionally as an illustrator by fifteen. He produced designs for Dante's Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Milton's Paradise Lost, the Bible, Perrault's fairy tales and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. His London: A Pilgrimage recorded the poverty of the Victorian city. Doré also painted and sculpted, though the engravings carried his name across Europe and America.
The Gustave Doré Collection at BestOfBharat
The range is built on the engravings. There are Don Quixote and Sancho setting out, the wrestle of Jacob, and scenes from Paradise Lost. The Vision of Death sits alongside the allegory known as The Enigma. Most of it is black, white and grey, worked in fine parallel lines. Doré worked with engravers who cut his drawings into the block, which is why the line is so even. Biblical subjects sit alongside landscape, myth and gothic invention.
Gustave Doré in Your Space
Black-and-white work is easy to place and hard to date. A single large Doré above a fireplace or a bed gives a room its centre. Two or three in a vertical stack suit a narrow hallway. The tonal range flatters grey, charcoal and deep green walls, and the prints sit comfortably next to books, brass and dark wood. Keep frames plain: black or dark walnut, with a white mount to hold the light around the image.
Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.
