Alpine Scene

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1865

Gustave Doré (French, 1832–1883)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Gustave Doré
Title: Alpine Scene
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.: 1865
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: G. Doré / 1865; lower left: [Do]ré
Dimensions: 195.5 × 130 cm (77 × 51 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Julius H. Weitzner, Inc.
Reference Number: 1967.588
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The Art Institute of Chicago: Annual Report 1967-68 (Chicago, 1968), p. 20.
Annie Renonciat, La vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Doré (Paris, 1983), pp. 78-9.
Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago and New York, 1987), pp. 72-73, 118.

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22-August 25, 1974, no cat.

Doré Gallery, London, before 1892 [according to a label on the stretcher; the Doré Gallery operated from 1867 to 1892]. Julius H. Weitzner, London by 1967; given by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1967.

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