THE LATE M. PAUL GUSTAVE DORE.
Oitb cablegrams announce the death of this eminent French artiste. We take the following from “ Men of the Time:”— Paul Gustave Dote, artist, was born at Strasburg, in January, 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 Rire.” He exhibited “Les Pins Sauvages,’ " Le Lendemainde I'Orage," “ Les Deux Mires," and "La Bataille d'Alma," in 1855 ; and “La Bataille d'lnkerman ”in 1857. He is the most German in style of French artists, and is well known as the illustrator of Rabelais, 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. Dor4, who has illustrated a book of travels in every part of the world, in 18(51 published 76 large drawings illustrative of the “ Divina Commedia ” 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 in 1866, are of the highest excellence. He was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour, Aug. 15, 1881.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1258, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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258THE LATE M. PAUL GUSTAVE DORE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1258, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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