An Alpine Valley with Trees and Boulders

An Alpine Valley with Trees and Boulders by Gustave Doré

Medium

watercolor, gouache and black chalk, with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 45.1 x 31.7 cm (17 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2003.144.1

About the Artist

Gustave Doré · 18321883

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...

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