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Inferno | Gustave Doré | 1857

Inferno | Gustave Doré | 1857

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Inferno by French artist Gustave Doré is a timeless work of art, elegantly represented by this finely printed engraving from 1857. An iconic piece featuring masterful details, this piece is sure to make a bold statement in any home.

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  • Title Inferno (L'Enfer) — illustration from the Hachette illustrated edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
  • Artist Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (French illustrator, printmaker, painter and sculptor; Strasbourg, 6 January 1832 - Paris, 23 January 1883)
  • Year of creation 1857 corresponds to Doré's design phase — he began working on the Dante illustrations in 1855 (when he was 23 years old) and the first illustrated edition of L'Enfer was published in Paris by Librairie L. Hachette in 1861 (with French text translated by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, 75-76 plates, large folio). Doré was unable to convince Hachette to finance the ambitious deluxe edition, so he paid the publishing costs himself; the first run sold out almost immediately, prompting Hachette to summon Doré back with the telegram "Success! Come quickly! I am an ass!" The Inferno illustrations became a defining point in Doré's career and were considered the first of his planned "chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature" (which would also include Homer, Ossian, Byron, Goethe, Racine, and Corneille). The plate shown corresponds to the Phlegyas episode from Canto VIII, in which the wrathful boatman of the river Styx — son of Mars, who had burned the temple of Apollo at Delphi after the god ravaged his daughter — ferries Dante and Virgil across the muddy river of the Fifth Circle, where the wrathful and sullen writhe in its waters
  • Technique/Medium Wood engraving on paper (designed by Gustave Doré and cut on the block by a team of engravers including Héliodore Pisan and others)
  • Original dimensions Each plate approximately 26 x 19 cm (image area); folio sheet approximately 41 x 30 cm (the work was issued as large-folio plates within the deluxe Hachette edition)
  • Collection/Museum Multiple impressions distributed across many institutional and private collections worldwide; complete sets of the 75-76 wood engravings are held in numerous rare-book libraries, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Cornell University Library Rare and Manuscript Collections; the Falvey Memorial Library Special Collections at Villanova University; and many others

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