La Sainte Bible (vol. 2)
Medium
Steel plate engraving
Dimensions
17 1/16 × 13 1/16 × 2 1/2 in. (43.4 × 33.1 × 6.4 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1977.643.13(2)
Tags
About the Artist
Gustave Doré|Hector Giacomelli|Alfred Mame et Fils|Alfred Mame et Fils · 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...