Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré, celebrated for his dramatic, often visionary illustrations, moves between graphite studies, wash drawings and pen-and-ink compositions in which figures, costume, landscape and biblical narrative take center stage. The sheets gathered here span the mid-nineteenth century and reveal his restless drafting hand across a handful of media, from gouache and brown ink over black chalk to brush and gray wash. Ten works represent this range, with subjects running from Christ emerging from the tomb and the apparition to a costumed actor, a rider beside a dead horse and a sketch of a draper's shop. The dates assigned by the Met reach into the later nineteenth century, so the range should be read as covering impressions up to that point rather than works alone.

10 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Sketch of a Draper's or Upholsterer's Shop

· Graphite

A Costumed Actor in Front of a Curtain

· Pen and black ink, graphite, heightened with white

A Rider and a Dead Horse in a Landscape

· Pen and black ink, brush and black wash, heightened with white on woodblock

Male figure in classical costume

1845–83 · Graphite

Le Christ sortant du tombeau

1850–83 · Gouache and brush and brown ink; over black chalk on brown paper

L'Apparition

1850–83 · Brush and gray wash over black chalk

An Englishman at Mabille (Un Anglais à Mabille), from "Galerie pour Rire," no. 34

1861 · Color lithograph

Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden

1862 · Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria

1863? · Oil on canvas

La Sainte Bible (vol. 2)

1866 · Steel plate engraving