Gustave DoréFrench, 1832–1883Watercolour
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
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About the work
The sketch is of a full length image of a gentleman in a blue military uniform. He wears a black bicorne hat with a tall black and blue feather on the right hand top edge. Two wide white sashes are worn crossed over his chest, reaching from the epaulets that adorn each shoulder to his hip. He also wears shin length black, tasselled, boots and the base of a sword is just visible behind his left knee. The sketch is mounted on heavy cardboard covered in a blue cloth.
A note on the back of the sketch indicates that it is part of a pair of sketches which were initially part of a sale that took place in Paris in 1882.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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- Accession number
- S.2069-1986
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Meanwhile, in the life of Gustave Doré
The whole life1880
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
