Street Scene

Street Scene by Gustave Doré

Medium

lithograph on wove paper [proof]

Dimensions

overall: 26.5 x 32.4 cm (10 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Accession Number

2002.57.15

About the Artist

Gustave Doré · 18321883

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...

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