The Giants are Captured

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1879

Gustave Doré
French, 1832-1883

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gustave Doré
Title: The Giants are Captured
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1869–1883
Medium: Watercolor, with touches of brush and brown ink, over graphite, on cream wove board
Dimensions: 44.5 × 36.5 cm (17 9/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1963.32
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New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 96.
Chicago, The Arts Club, “The Horse as Motif,” January 15-February 22, 1975.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 53 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 110-111, cat. 52 (ill.).

Sold by Stephen Spector, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

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