Dwarf Musicians of Granada

Gustave Doré

1861/1862

Dwarf Musicians of Granada by Gustave Doré

Medium

pen and black ink with light brown wash over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22 x 17.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.107

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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