DORE (1836-1904), French artist, was born at Grenoble on Jan. 14, 1836. He studied first with his father, a pastel painter, and then at the drawing school of Lecoq de Boisbaudran. He was the friend of Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet and others. He exhibited in the Salon of 1861 and many of his more important canvases appeared on its walls in later years, though 1863 found him with Harpignies, Manet, Legros and Whistler in the Salon des Refuses. Whistler introduced him to English artistic circles in London. He died on Aug. 28, 1904. His portrait groups, ar ranged somewhat after the manner of the Dutch masters, are as interesting from their subjects as they are from the artistic point of view. "Hommage a Delacroix" showed portraits of Whistler and Legros, Baudelaire, Champfleury and himself ; "Un Atelier a Batignolles" gave portraits of Monet, Manet, Zola and Renoir, and is now in the Luxembourg; "Un Coin de table" presented Ver laine, Rimbaud, Camille Peladan and others; and "Autour du Piano" contained portraits of Chabrier, D'Indy and other musi cians. His paintings of flowers are perfect examples of the art. In his later years he devoted much attention to lithography. After "L'Anniversaire" in honour of Berlioz in the Salon of 1876, he regularly exhibited lithographs, some of which were examples of delicate portraiture, others being elusive and imaginative draw ings illustrative of the music of Wagner (whose cause he cham pioned in Paris as early as 1864), Berlioz, Brahms and other composers. He illustrated Adolphe Jullien's Wagner (1886) and Berlioz (1888). There are excellent collections of his lithographic work at Dresden, the British Museum and the Louvre.
See Germain Hediard, Les Maitres de la lithographie ; Loys Delteil, L'Oeuvre lithographique de Fantin-Latour (1907) ; A. Jullien, Fantin-Latour, sa vie et ses amities (19o9).