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Flood Destroying the World | Gustave Doré | 1866

Flood Destroying the World | Gustave Doré | 1866

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This artwork, "Flood Destroying the World" by French artist Gustave Doré (1866), is a fine art print of an engraving. The intricate detail and craftsmanship of this piece will surely add beauty and sophistication to any home.

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  • Title The World Destroyed by Water (Le monde détruit par les eaux) — also known as Flood Destroying the World
  • Artist Gustave Doré
  • Year of creation 866 (created as illustration no. 6 in La Grande Bible de Tours, depicting Genesis 7:24 — "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days"; shows humans and animals desperately clinging to a final rock as the floodwaters rise, with children clinging atop while adults below struggle against the tumultuous waves and birds soar above. Doré produced 241 designs in total for the Bible, considered among his most significant and technically accomplished work)
  • Technique/Medium Wood engraving (printmaking; engraved on wood after Doré's drawings)
  • Original dimensions Not standardized — typical full-page wood engraving plates from Doré's Bible measure approximately 25 x 19.5 cm (image area)
  • Collection/Museum Not held by a single museum — the work is a wood engraving widely reproduced from Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible ("La Grande Bible de Tours"), published by Mame in Tours and by Cassell & Company in London in 1866; impressions are distributed across many public and private collections worldwide

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