The Happy Drunkards
Gustave Doré
n.d.
Medium
Etching and plate tone on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 33.8 × 24.7 cm (13 5/16 × 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 41.3 × 20.1 cm (16 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84506
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...