Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours
The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours.
Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.
Image: 004.Cain and Abel Offer Their Sacrifices
Image: 005.Cain Slays Abel
Image: Gustave Doré The Holy Bible Plate I, The Deluge
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.
Photograph by Nadar, between 1856 and 8
Doré by Carolus-Duran (1877)
d'Artagnan on Doré's monument to Alexandre Dumas, père in Paris
Doré in 1867 by Nadar