GUSTAVE DOES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 851, 25 January 1883, Page 2

GUSTAVE DOES.

Wo take the following biography of this celebrated artist, whose death is announced in our cablegrams to have taken place on Tuesday, from “ Men of the Time ” :

Dohb, Paul Gustave, artist, was born at Strasburg, Jan 6, 1832. In boyhood he accompanied his father to Paris, where he completed his education. At an early age he contributed comic sketches to the Journal pour Mire. He exhibited “Les Pins Sauvages,” “Le Lendemain. de I’Orage,” “ Les Deux Mdres,” and “La BataiMe d’Aima,” in 1855; and “La Bataille dTnkermann ” in 1857. He is the moat German in style of French artists, and is well-known as the illustrator of Kabelais, for his still more delightful pictorial commentaries upon Balzac’s wild Contes Drolatiques, and his illustrations of the legend of the “ Wandering Jew,” in a series of grotesque yet epical pictures, which bear the stamp of Holbein and A. Durer, combined with the racy humor of Hogarth. This book in English, translated by Mr Walter Thornbury, appeared in 1857. M. Dord, who has illustrated a book of travels in every part of the world, in 1861 published seventy-six large drawings illustrative of the “Divina Oommedia ” of Dante, accompanied by a blank-verse translation of the text by Mr W. M. Rossetti, and a series of wonderful folio illustrations to Don Quixote, which are all careful studies from Spanish life, in 1863. His illustrations of the Holy Bible, and of Milton, published in this country (England) in 1866, are of the highest excellence. His principal paintings which, since 1870, have been on view at the “ Dord Gallery,” in New Bond street, London, are—“ Christ leaving the Pretorium,” “ The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism,” “ Paolo and Francesca di Rimini,” “The Dream of Pilate's Wife,” “ Christian Martyrs in the reign of Diocletian,” “ The Entry into Jerusalem,” “ The Brazen Serpent,” “The Victor Angels,” “ The Flight into Egypt,” “ The Neophyte,” “ Evening in the Alps,” “ The Prairie,” “ Spanish Peasants,” and “ Mont Blanc.” M. Gustave Lord has been recently devoting his energies to the production of a colossal vase ornamented with 150 figures, which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878. He has also finished .another sculptural group, “ The Prize of Glory a young hero dying beneath the kiss of Glory. He has lately been engaged in illustrating Ariosto. M. Dord was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour, August 15, 1861.