6.01.1832 – 23.01.1883

January 6, 1832 was born the most popular illustrator of the XIX century, the highest paid in France, for 40 years of his creative work he created more than 10 thousand engravings, while never getting classical art education, the legendary Gustave Dore.

From his earliest childhood, he was fond of drawing, L. Dyakov in the book about Dora writes that according to the stories of the old nurse of the boy – Franzoise, she had never seen her pupil without a pencil since four years, he even took him to bed with him.

Already at the age of 15, after moving with his mother to Paris, Gustave Dore begins her professional career in the Journal Purrer with a series of drawings about the exploits of Hercules. To this end, the weekly Doré performed about 2,000 satirical cartoons, such as the series “Different publics in Paris” and “The Parisian Menagerie”. But four years later the artist’s collaboration with the magazine ends, Dore is fond of book illustration.

He created engravings for many literary works – these are the poems of Byron, and Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, and The Naughty Stories by Honore de Balzac. But special success was brought to him by work on illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. These engravings brought him not only fame, but even greater financial success.

Not only Gustave Dore’s inexhaustible fantasy surprises, but also his amazing performance. In the 1860s he illustrates the “Tales” of Charles Perrault, “Don Quixote” by Cervantes, “The Lost Paradise” by John Milton, “The Trappers of the Sea” by Victor Hugo, “The Fables” by Lafontaine. His illustrations of the Bible are still considered classical and are used in various editions in different languages.