Fairy Land

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Prints and Drawings

1881

Gustave Doré
French, 1832-1883

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gustave Doré
Title: Fairy Land
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.: 1881
Medium: Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, in ink: "Gv Doré / 1881".
Dimensions: 64.8 × 89 cm (25 9/16 × 35 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1938.1959
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Gaîte Dugnat, La Societe d’Aquarellistes Français 1879-1896 (Dijon, 2002), 1881, no. 1.

La Société d’Aquarellistes Français (Society of French Watercolor Artists), Paris, 1881, cat. 1.
New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, “Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré,” January 23-April 22, 2007, cat. 190, cat. by Eric Zafran, et. al.
Ottowa, National Gallery of Canada, “Dore: Master of Imagination”, June 13 - September 14, 2014, p. 269, fig. 234, cat. by Philippe Kaenel, et. al.

Kate S. Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; Kate Buckingham estate; given to the Art Institute, 1938.

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