wealthy family
1847 – hired by Charles Philippon, founder of La Caricature and Le Charivari; produces weekly drawings for Philippon’s Journal pour rire
1850 – exhibits at the Paris Salon
1850s-80s –illustrates Byron’s Complete Works (1853); Dante’s Divine Comedy (1861, 1868); Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1863); Milton’s Paradise Lost (1866); Hugo’s Ancient Songs from a Small Island (1867); and Poe’s The Raven (1883)
1857 – exhibits Battle of Inkerman (Château de Versailles) the Salon; purchased by the State
1865 – illustrated Bible published
1868 – Doré Gallery opens in New Bond Street, London; collaborates with Blanchard Jerrold on London: A Pilgrimage (1872)
1877 – exhibits sculpture at the Salon
1892 – Doré Gallery closes, works sent to US as travelling exhibition
Scotland, Pyrénées and Alps
Illustrations to Dante’s Inferno, 1861
Illustrations to Dante’s Paradise and Purgatory, 1868
Doré, Gustave. Fantasy and Faith: the Art of Gustave Doré. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007