Gustave DoréFrench, 1832–1883Paysage d'Écosse
May one see it?
Unknown
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
Caen, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 69.7.1
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen — cliché Martine Seyve; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Gustave Doré
The whole life1870s
The engraving cycle “Versailles and Paris” and a history of Spain
In the 1870s Doré makes a cycle of engravings, “Versailles and Paris”, and illustrates an edition on the history of Spain.
1874–1879
87 illustrations for the Divine Comedy for the publisher Wolff
In 1874–79 Doré draws 87 illustrations for the three-volume edition of Dante's “Divine Comedy” published by Maurice Wolff in St Petersburg.
15 January 1879 · Award
Officer of the Legion of Honour
1880
Doré's watercolours bequeathed to the Grenoble museum
In 1880 the physician Jean-Baptiste Fuzier, a specialist in yellow fever and other tropical diseases, bequeaths watercolour paintings by Doré to the museum of Grenoble.
23 January 1883
A fatal heart attack while working on Shakespeare
Doré dies of a heart attack in Paris following a short illness; at the time of his death he is working on illustrations for an edition of Shakespeare's plays.
23 January 1883
Died
