An Alpine Valley with Trees and Boulders
1876
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 · 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...