Male figure in classical costume
Gustave Doré
1845–83
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/16 x 9 1/2 in. (23.4 x 24.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katherine Ticknor Heintzelman, 1966
Accession Number
66.189.1
Tags
ContemplationMenWomen
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...