Fantastic Gustave Doré

Dreaming and Making Others Dream
An unprecedented retrospective of Gustave Doré's most beautiful prints and greatest paintings, selected from his body of work of over 10,000 illustrations, commented by Alix Paré, art historian and lecturer, and Valérie Sueur-Hermel, curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

"Gustave Doré is a complete artist: draughtsman, engraver, painter, and sculptor. His genius in literary illustration has made him part of the collective unconscious, influencing cinema, animation, comic strips, and advertising. He is one of the most talented and prolific draughtsmen of the 19th century. (...)

Doré touched upon everything: caricature of the men of his time, war reporting, fables, poetry, romance, but also allegory and landscape. He produced comic caricatures and serious images, epic visions and contemplative views; he observed reality while being a virtuoso in fantasy. It seemed necessary to us to share this abundance and reveal this diversity." Excerpt from the Foreword

"They call it illustrating a work: I claim it is remaking it. Instead of one masterpiece, the human spirit counts two."
Émile Zola, about Gustave Doré's illustrations for Don Quixote