Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval)
1855
Medium
lithograph on chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 51 × 35 cm (20 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.) sheet: 58.9 × 42.9 cm (23 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Prouté Family in Honor of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2016.134.3
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...