Paul Gustave Doré (French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor) 1832 - 1883
Les Fées (Scène Tirée de Shakespeare (The fairies: A scene drawn from Shakespeare), 1873
watercolour and pen and ink heightened with gouache on paper laid down on paper
16 x 27 1/4 in. (40.6 x 69.2 cm.)
signed and dated 1873
private collection
Dore executed a second watercolour of this subject. slightly larger and with more elves, two years later in 1875 (Berg and Metken, Gustave Dore. L'Oeuvre Graphique, Paris, 1976, Vol. I, cover illustration and Vol.II, p. 104). In addition, Dore completed a large painting of a similar subject: Le Pays de Fees (Delorme, Gustave Dore, peintre, sculpteur, dessinateur et graveur, Paris, 1879, p. 40). We are grateful to Samuel F. Clapp for his assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
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