DORE, PAUL GUSTAVE, a French artist of great and versatile power, was b. at Stras burg in 1832. He was educated at Paris, and very early gave indication of superior ability. His first attempts were sketches, contributed to the Journal pour 1?-ire and others of the Paris periodicals. .In 1855, he exhibited his picture of "Battle of the Alma," which was followed by the " Battle of Inkerman" in 1857. In this year he first became heard of in England by the reissue of his illustrations of the legend of the " Wandering Jew," the power of weird and grotesque imagination displayed in which could not fail to arrest attention. The success of this work might seem to have deter mined the future career of the artist, who has since chiefly worked as an illustrator. His productiveness in this field is amazing. He has illustrated editions of Rabelais, of the Contes Drolatiques of De Balzac, of Dante's Disina Corninedia, of Don Quixote, of Lafontaine's Fables, of Milton, and of the Bible—all of which bear the impress of D.'s
original genius. He has has also illustrated Tennyson's works, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, the Legend of the Wandering Jew, and a tour in Valencia, besides executing a vast mass of miscellaneous work. He has from time to time reproduced and exhibited in Paris and London many of his designs. The " Dore Gallery," used for this purpose, has been open in London for several years. " Christ leaving the Praitor ium" is his most important painting. The slightest of D.'s productions shows that he is at once artist and poet, and excites a greater interest than many works more free from hastiness and mannerism. In 1861, D. received the decoration of the legion of honor.