Gustave Doré

Born

January 6, 1832

Died

January 23, 1883 (aged 51)

Known as

painter, illustrator, caricaturist, comics artist, lithographer, graphic artist

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French artist. 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 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.

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