The Princess is Held Captive
c. 1879
Medium
Watercolor, with touches of gouache, and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card, laid down on blue card
Dimensions
44.4 × 36.4 cm (17 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16447
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...