Sir Lancelot Approaching the Castle of Astolat
Gustave Doré
n.d.
Medium
Gouache with pen and black ink, heightened with lead white (partially discolored), on cream wove paper prepared with a brown ink ground
Dimensions
42 × 31.7 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43672
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...