Flower Sellers of London 1875
by Gustave Dore
Title
Flower Sellers of London 1875
Artist
Gustave Dore
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Flower Sellers of London 1875 by Gustave Dore
Doré made his name in France in the 1850s and 1860s as an illustrator of books and poems. His paintings were admired more in Britain, which he first visited in 1868, returning each summer thereafter. His greatest achievement as an illustrator was his book, 'London: A Pilgrimage' (1872). Its illustrations highlighted the gulf between high society and the grim life of the poor in the capital city.
Doré's biographer stated that he "was touched by the sad beauty to be found in poor street flower sellers", a sympathy that can perhaps be felt in this painting.
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving.
Le Christ quittant le prétoire 1867–72, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Le Christ quittant le prétoire
Doré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. By age five, he was a prodigy troublemaker, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in cement. At the age of fifteen Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le Journal pour rire, and subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.
Les Oceanides Les Naiades de la mer, 1860s
In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated Bible. In 1856 he produced twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew, which propagated long standing anti-semitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Ranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845
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