Le Christ sortant du tombeau
Gustave Doré
1850–83
Medium
Gouache and brush and brown ink; over black chalk on brown paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 3/16 x 34 5/16 in. (51.3 x 87.1cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.147
Tags
SleepingChristTombsMen
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...