A Costumed Actor in Front of a Curtain
Medium
Pen and black ink, graphite, heightened with white
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. (18.3 x 14 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.600.266
Tags
MenActors
About the Artist
Gustave Doré · 1832–1883
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was a French artist who became the most celebrated and prolific illustrator of the nineteenth century, creating iconic visual interpretations of world literature that remain definitive to this day. Born in Strasbourg, he showed extraordinary precocious talent, publishing his first lithographs at age fifteen and securing a contract with a Paris publisher while still a teena...