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Gustave Doré
Fables de La Fontaine - Rare Book Illustrated by Gustave Doré - 1868
1868

Name: Fables de La Fontaine - Rare Book Illustrated by Gustave Doré - 1868
Brand: Gustave Doré
Rating: 4.9 (571 reviews)

$885.78List Price

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Fables is an original modern rare book Jean de La Fontaine (Château-Thierry, 1621 – Paris, 1695) and illustrated by Gustave Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 – 23 January 1883) in 1868. Published by Hachette, Paris. Original First Edition of this illustrated version. Format: in 4°. The book includes 864 pages with 84 full page etchings. Mint conditions. Gustave Doré in 1868. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. 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 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew, which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, became so famous that they influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883. Doré's later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy. Doré's work also appeared in the weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News. Jean de La Fontaine (Château-Thierry, 1621 – Paris, 1695). Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables di lui, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.

Creator:
Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883, French)
Creation Year:
1868
Dimensions:
Height: 14.77 in (37.5 cm)Width: 10.83 in (27.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
Medium:
Paper,Etching
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1860-1869
Condition:
Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: M-1185121stDibs: LU65037987392

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