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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 1,988,063 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Doré is the 72nd most popular painter (down from 70th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from France (down from 191st 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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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustave Doré ranks 72 out of 1,421. Before him are Alfred Sisley, Piero della Francesca, Henri Rousseau, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alphonse Mucha. After him are Frans Hals, Pietro Perugino, Andrea Mantegna, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, François Boucher, and Lili Elbe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Gustave Doré ranks 7. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, and Maximilian I of Mexico. After him are Edward Burnett Tylor, William Crookes, Louisa May Alcott, Ivan Shishkin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and José Echegaray. 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, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, and Eva Gonzalès.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 212 out of 6,011. Before him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Méliès (1861), Charles IV of France (1294), Saint Roch (1295), Pope Innocent VI (1282), and Marie Thérèse of France (1778). After him are John II of France (1319), Petronius (27), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), François Hollande (1954), and Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Doré ranks 20. Before him are Georges Braque (1882), Georges Seurat (1859), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Henri Rousseau (1844). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), François Boucher (1703), Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Berthe Morisot (1841).

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