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    Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
    Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
    Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
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    Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote

    By Gustave Doré

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    "His Don Quixote … from its first to its last page [is] a marvel of imagination, poetry, sentiment, and sarcasm. . . . People still speak of it only as 'Doré's Don Quixote'." — Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré
    Doré himself had something of Quixote's chivalry and spent an arduous life drafting impossible dreams; he knew fame as well as pain, disillusionment, and failure. At age 30 he was ready for Quixote and prepared to realize his dream of illustrating the world's great books.
    Doré never became the painter he yearned to be, but he came very close to realizing his desired intimacy with the classics. His sympathy with Cervantes' satire was so close that, of the numerous Quixote interpretations by many outstanding artists, Doré's has become the standard. The French translation of Cervantes that Doré illustrated is forgotten; here is the memorable remnant of that work — all 120 full-page plates, plus a selection of 70 characteristic headpiece and tailpiece vignettes.
    As can be seen in the backgrounds, Doré was ready professionally as well as emotionally for Quixote. He had traveled through Spain preparing an earlier work, and his graphic memory was as strong and indelible as that of another great Quixote interpreter, Picasso. From Sancho's village through Spanish hills and dry plateaus, in the Pyrenees and by the sea, in rural castles and Barcelona luxury, Doré illuminated the seventeenth-century setting with a nineteenth-century acquaintance with the scene. Doré was also a careful student of Renaissance costume and architecture; his minutiae, so copious, are invariably correct.
    Captions written especially for this edition describe the action with reference to the original Spanish text, capturing high points of the story. But of course Doré conveys it all in a picture: the famous windmill charge, traversing the Sierra Morena, battling the Knight of the White Moon, visions of giants, dragons, flaming lakes, and damsels, the Dulcinea never found, all in full-page wood engravings. Doré's marvelous penchant for ghostly effects in panoramic landscapes and seascapes finds large scope here, carefully engraved by one of the best of his longtime studio engravers, H. Pisano.
    Doré's Man of la Mancha glows with the artist's own enchantment and humor. Artists and illustration aficionados will add this royalty-free volume to other Dover editions of Doré's works — art he created to stand with great literature that now stands alone. Doré's Quixote indeed stands alone, unique among the knights and graphic castles in Spain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 21, 2012
    ISBN9780486136943
    Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
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    Gustave Doré

    Paul Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.

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      Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote - Gustave Doré

      Don Quixote’s imagination is inflamed by romances of chivalry (1, 1).

      Copyright © 1982 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Doré’s Illustrations for Don Quixote: A Selection of 190 Illustrations, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1982, is a new selection of illustrations from L’ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche par Miguel de Cervantès Saavedra / Traduction de Louis Viardot avec 370 compositions de Gustave Doré gravées sur bois par H. Pisan, as published in two volumes by L. Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1869 (original printing, 1863). The selection, publisher’s note and captions were done specially for the present edition.

      DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

      This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

      However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc.

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