French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)

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Rabelais, écrivain-médecin / par vingt-deux médecins, français et italiens ; illustrations d'après Gustave Doré.

School of Medicine, Paris: interior view showing doctors attending a lecture in the amphitheatre. Coloured lithograph by G. Doré.

A woman entering a doorway holds her hand out with money in it to the family gathered on the doorstep. Engraving by J. Saddler after G. Doré.

An opium den in London's East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Wood engraving by A. Doms, 1872, after G. Doré.

A gipsy girl having her hair dressed by an old woman. Reproduction of a wood engraving after G. Doré.

A young distressed woman is standing on the pier of a bridge on the River Thames contemplating suicide. Engraving by T. Godfrey after G. Doré.

People suffering from the plague in Jerusalem. Wood engraving by J. Huyot after G. Doré.

Australia: a dead body placed on an elevated wooden structure; dingos seated below. Wood engraving after G. Doré, ca. 1865.

Two Spanish coach riders wearing ornate livery with a decorated horse. Wood engraving after G. Doré.

Cain kills Abel under a stormy sky. Wood engraving by H. Pisan after G. Dore.

Crowds watching horses approach the finishing line of the Derby. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after G. Doré.

Ahasuerus (the Wandering Jew) man sits in hell among the shades, decrepit and tormented by Satan. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after G. Doré, 1856.

London, a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.

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Gustave Doré

Images from the collections

Images by Gustave Doré

Works from the collections

People suffering from the plague in Jerusalem. Wood engraving by J. Huyot after G. Doré.

Two Spanish coach riders wearing ornate livery with a decorated horse. Wood engraving after G. Doré.

Australia: a dead body placed on an elevated wooden structure; dingos seated below. Wood engraving after G. Doré, ca. 1865.

London, a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.

A gipsy girl having her hair dressed by an old woman. Reproduction of a wood engraving after G. Doré.