The Calling of Samuel
Gustave Doré
1877
Medium
Brush and brown wash and white gouache, with pen and black ink, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
36.7 × 29.2 cm (14 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81303
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...