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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Gustave Doré: The Reign of Imagination

Apr 23, 2020 – Aug 30, 2021
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

He did it all, Gustave Doré—graphic novelist, caricaturist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. His engravings of Perrault’s fairy tales, Dante’s Inferno, and the Bible are indelible images that live in our mind’s eye today, part of a collective visual history. This virtual exhibition explores the great artist’s work in different mediums, including his fascination with death, the afterlife, and, strangely enough, traveling entertainers. —E.C.

Gustave Doré, “Les Saltimbanques,” 1874 © Ville de Clermont-Ferrand ̶ Musée d’art Roger-Quilliot.