Lot 26
  • 26

Gustave Doré

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Doré
  • Puss in Boots. ca. 1870.
  • oil on canvas
Oil on canvas, based after the artist’s original woodcut design for the book Les Contes de Perrault (Paris, 1862). Signed “G Dore” at lower left. Measures 28-3/4 x 18-1/2 inches; in period frame.

Condition

Not examined out of frame. Oil on canvas. No visible signs of retouching under ultra violet light. There are some scattered, faint lines of craquelure. Presented in a gilt frame, with scattered cracks and minor gilding losses.
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Catalogue Note

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) is one of the major artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration, creating monumental designs for the “Holy Bible”, Dante’s “Inferno” and Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, among others. He is a master of design, color and composition. His designs for Perrault’s Fairy Tales were so popular than he exhibited these same designs as oil paintings on canvas; “Puss-in-Boots” is perhaps his best known image from this series.