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Gustave Doré

1832 - 1883

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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: DOR-ay, US: dor-AY, French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Doré has received more than 2,149,984 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Gustave Doré is the 77th most popular painter (down from 72nd in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from France (down from 212th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Painter.

Gustave Doré is most famous for his illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy. He also illustrated many other classic books, including Aesop's Fables, Paradise Lost, and Don Quixote.

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  • 3.59

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustave Doré ranks 77 out of 2,023. Before him are Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Ilya Repin, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Cimabue. After him are Diego Rivera, François Boucher, Alfred Sisley, Jackson Pollock, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Canaletto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Gustave Doré ranks 8. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, and Maximilian I of Mexico. After him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, William Crookes, Louisa May Alcott, and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Among people deceased in 1883, Gustave Doré ranks 5. Before him are Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Édouard Manet, and Ivan Turgenev. After him are Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Midhat Pasha, Joseph Plateau, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Thomas Mayne Reid.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 223 out of 6,770. Before him are André Breton (1896), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900). After him are Léon Foucault (1819), Bernard Arnault (1949), François Boucher (1703), Pope Urban VI (1318), Philip V of France (1293), and Christian Dior (1905).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 20. Before him are Georges Braque (1882), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796). After him are François Boucher (1703), Alfred Sisley (1839), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Honoré Daumier (1808).

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