![]() ![]() In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics, like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854). Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work. At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Biography ĭoré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. The drawings given to the block-cutters were often surprisingly sketch-like and free. on cylinder presses", allowing very large print runs as steel engravings, "hypnotizing the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator", and being published simultaneously in many countries. ![]() ![]() In all he created some 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were "duplicated in electrotype shells that were printed. These achieved great international success, and he is the best-known artist in this printmaking technique, 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 is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings, especially those illustrating classic books, including 241 illustrating the Bible. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( UK: / ˈ d ɔːr eɪ/ DOR-ay, US: / d ɔː ˈ r eɪ/ dor- AY, French: 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. ![]()
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