Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden
1862
Medium
Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (23 × 29 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2014
Accession Number
2014.643.6
Tags
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...