GUSTAVE DORÉ MASTER OF FANTASY HD 1080p

[@divyajnana]

What a machine, Dore must have worked nonstop to create that much in such a short period of time. Incredible artist, thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. How one man can produce so much great work in 35 years beggars belief. At the height of his career he was keeping 40 different engravers in work, apparently.

[@StefaniaP880]

Îm happy he did

[@justicecommander9455]

I have no words for this one, only me aspiring the reach even a fraction of the amount of work he did in just 35 years.

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes it's hard to imagine how anyone can be so prolific and so talented. Us mortals have to settle for the hand we've been dealt.

[@level9drow856]

This is one of the most underrated masters of the all of human time. I've been waiting for this one. He is one of those artist that have an unattainable skill level that most even skilled artist cannot get to.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Many of us share your oprinion of his incredible work.

[@SupernovaDragon77]

Wouldn’t say he’s underrated, he’s relatively well known. He has had a big influence on art even up to this day.

[@level9drow856]

@@SupernovaDragon77 Unknown =/= underated People know about Rob Leifield but that doesn't make him a good artist.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

As fantastic as Dore was I'm also amazed at the engraver who translated his work for print!! I think the engraver's work often gets overlooked... Thanks for this deep dive, Pete and especially for showcasing Dore's painting!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I did consider talking about a few of his engravers - Heliodore Pisan is a name that crops up repeatedly. But I didn;t want the video to outstay its welcome with those of shorter attention spans. But here's a fun fact I left out - at the height of his career he was keeping around 40 different engravers in work, trying to keep up with his output.

[@jerkchickenblog]

yes! i saw the H. Pisan on one of the London plates with lots of line work in the shading and wondered if it was the engraver. I did notice that he really couldn't have got his work across if it wasn't for some incredible people he'd found to work with.

[@jerkchickenblog]

@@petebeard at the end i was really amazed he died at 51. Hard to believe. What is it about genius or very special people (i wouldn't extend this to anyone of my generation or those just before, gen x, boomers, etc) that produce so much work but die so early. Sad.

[@josuefox]

Exactly like the japanese artists for Ukiyo-e ... Hokusai for example, if I am not wrong, never made his japanese prints but the original design ( which was destroyed in the process) .. There were so many artists/jobs involved : the one who carves then the one who prints

[@johngraham4053]

Dore, the Rembrandt of illustration thats for sure. His images drag you in with all that superb and interesting detail. Another super presentation, Thanks Pete,

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

[@akaErma]

Dore has been a huge inspiration throughout my art career. Thank you for featuring him in greater detail!

[@michaelschlageter8381]

Cool...wanna See your paintings, drawings as well

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment. I just took a look at one of your videos and what a pleasure to see someone using traditional materials with such skill. I wish you every success.

[@michaelschlageter8381]

@@petebeard Ah now l See.. l can go to the KZbin Chanel of aka Emma and See her Kind of artstyle...thanks...😄

[@akaErma]

@@petebeard Thank you so much for your kind words! I am sincerely touched.

[@sidilicious11]

I am so blown away at the ambitious volume of quality work these talented illustrators put out.

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes, that combination of talent and productivity takes some believing.

[@Ellesmere888]

Like many French Canadians, I grew up with an early appreciation of Gustave Doré's illustrative work. Some 15 - 20 years ago, the National Gallery of Canada had a terrific retrospective of his accomplishments in Ottawa. I had not been aware of his work in sculpture, painting, etc. I came out of there ... stunned. Doré was gifted as very, very few are. I do not have but the highest regard for this truly remarkable artist. Thank you for giving him his due.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment, and apprciation of the video.

[@5809AUJG]

Wonderful. Dore' was a titan of creativity and genius. His art is remarkable in its beauty, depth, and grace. I truly love and revere his work! Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment.

[@jaquesaulait]

Most interesting. His sculptures are womderful. Thanks for posting.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.

[@TipaMoe]

Thank you so much for featuring Gustave Dore, he has been a great inspiration to me for over 30 years. He is not easy to find information on and this was a great help in understanding this truly great artist.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm very pleased you enjoyed the video.

[@alejandromartinez2373]

I first meet Doré's work when i was a child, my granpa had an ilustraded edition of Don Quijote de la Mancha, a big big big fantastic book and i get amazed at every page, every ilustration !!!!!wow what a genius, he was a master in details, playing with ligth and shadows, expresions, and dramatic representation of human situations, what a shame that he is so underated as an artist, he was my inspiration for starting drawing. THANKS GUSTAVE FOR ALL THAT MASTERWORK!!!!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I had always assume that most people were familiar with Doré and it came as a surprise when I taught illustration how few students had even heard of him.

[@bills.7175]

Peter, I am so grateful that you are producing and packaging this lovingly created digital series of the history of great illustrators. You are providing a gift to the world chronicling this soon to be lost art form. The World thanks you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and your comment is music to my ears. It really is a peasure to know that viewers such as yourself appreciate what I'm trying to do with the channel.

[@siegfreidx1633]

These kind of videos are the best, cant help but be transported inside the illustration + the narrator’s voice is so soothing

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your kind comments - they are greatly appreciated.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

Thank you for this. Dore's work never ceases to amaze me.

[@petebeard]

Hello and me too.

[@timgarrett203]

Wow! Amazing quality and quantity of work! It always amazes me the self taught artists like Dore. There’s something different in their brains. Another great video!

[@petebeard]

Hi again and my thanks as usual. It's quite easy I think to imagine Doré wasn't actually human. So prolific and so skilful it makes my head spin.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thirteen minutes and thirty-eight seconds of a perfect visual artistic biography. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thank you for such a complimentary comment. You made my day.

[@fjfjjsjfjjejsjdfkejjs]

So happy to hear you talking about Gustave Doré. As always, the explanations are so interesting and even as a (graduated) art history student I learned many things. His illustrations are so intricate and full of details, I'd spend hours watching them. Thank you for this incredible video!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm pleased to say I discovered quite a few previously unknown aspects of Doré's life and work in the making of the video. Three cheers for lifelong learning.

[@secretshaman189]

Love Dore- his dramatic lighting/ staging have always been one of my favorites. I have not seen all of these images, especially the color versions, so thank-you again for sharing your treasures! It is also extraordinary he was self taught!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for commenting. Whichever way you look at it Monsieur Doré wa a truly exceptional individual. What I would have given for a fraction of that talent...

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Hi Lynda, as always ,Pete has opened my eyes to new stuff, in fact enjoyed the Lady Lever Art gallery this afternoon here on the Wirral...cheers..E

[@cantycanvas4150]

Thankyou for doing this one! I absolutely love the works of Doré.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. He is undoubtedly one of the true giants.

[@TheMarkEH]

Another great talent that I had not heard of. Thank you for doing justice to these great artists with your outstanding Video-Vignettes.

[@petebeard]

Hi again, and I'm delighted to have introduced you to the work of this illustrative giant.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I've always been a fan of Dore and his work. I'm glad to see you are, too.

[@petebeard]

Absolutely. How could anyone not be?

[@michaelvaladez6570]

This is a wonderful commentary. I have been a follower of Dore but never could find a history of his life.I have a book of almost all his massive collection. He was a big source of inspiration. Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Always a pleasure to see your channel.ps never knew of his bronze works..great.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your appreciation. It has to be said that I didn't find much in the way of biographical detail in my research but I did the best i could with what I had. Luckily for me its the work rather than the person I'm primarily interested in. I didn't know he had sculpted either

[@fairstnaimelastenaime1346]

Art is forever, this is an art history channel and I'd love to have DVD's of everything.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your recent comments. Regarding Omni I had heard of it and even remember seeing some copies, but my focus is so fixed on the more distant past I never bothered with it. But following your suggestion I took a look and see that I missed out on some great scifi illustration. It's too far out of my sphere to persuade me to make a video devoted just to the magazine ( I wouldn't know what to say about it at any length), but I'm currently working on a history of scifi art and it will make a very worthwhile addition to that. So many thanks for the information.

[@charlesmaschi3238]

Outstanding. One of my all-time favorite artists. As a boy, I would go to our local library, they had several books illistrated by Dore'. I remember pouring over the thrillng scenes, and exquisite details. Thanks so much.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. It was while at school that I first saw his work too, and I've loved it ever since.

[@charlesmaschi3238]

@@petebeard Thanks again. I neglected to compliment you on your excellent video about the artwork of Maxfield Parrish, another one of my favorites.

[@HowardWimshurst]

Thank you for making this He's one of my favourite illustrators

[@petebeard]

Hello and you are more than welcome. Thanks for the appreciation.

[@bdizzle1118]

I love your videos! You're doing us all a great service, and an honor to the artists you cover.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel content.

[@neillgj]

10,000 illustrations ! A 13th travail d'Hercule ! Another SUPERB video, Mr Beard. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual. Regarding his productivity I read (although did not include it in the video in case it was a spurious claim) that at the height of his popularity he was keeping about 40 engravers in regular work.

[@neillgj]

@@petebeard Dore's good relations with his engravers and woodcutters is legendary, as was that of Grandville. VERY different in England. France had egalite and fraternite as 2 of its 3 founding principles. England was perniciously class driven. One could write a socio-economic treatise on authors, illustrators and their printers. Dickens was a tyrant as was Trollope. Others took a humanitarian view. George Gissing followed all his more than 25 illustrators for the big magazines. He critiqued them poorly but recognised their straitened circumstances and this gained his sympathy. There is a moving diary entry of the 2 sets of illustrations by Fred Barnard. When Gissing visited, he noted the wretchedness of Barnard's home AND his drunkenness - "just able to talk connectedly." Gissing WAS impressed with one of Barnard's drawings for his short story "The Fate of Humphrey Snell" and wrote to him to try to obtain the original drawing from him.

[@petebeard]

@@neillgj Hello again and thanks a lot for your historical insight. I must admit I remain in blissful ignorance about the complexities of socio-economic history. For me it's all about the images and how they were created and reproduced. I should stress this is no criticism of those such as yourself who obviously know about such things. I just don't have room in my old head for bigger and broader issues.

[@petebeard]

@@neillgj Hello again, and my apologies if this is the second reply. I thought I'd sent one but youtube disagrees. Anyway it was along the lines of thanks for the insight, and an admission of my own shortcomings with regard to historical context, and thanks for Fred barnard - never previously heard of him.

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@neillgj Thank you for your commentary on Dickens's relationship with "his" engravers. Although relatively new to Dore's work wondered why he didn't illustrate Dickens novels. After a short search appears Dickens was a dick ... dictating what scenes to illustrate down to the details of a chair and if it wasn't to his liking reject it completely. Impressed that Dore allowed some of his studio engravers to also sign the print. Also, that Dore possibly didn't illustrate Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust" was due to his respect of Eugene Delacroix Illustrating it previously. So, Dore and Dick collaborating would have been mixing oil and vinegar.

[@pchabanowich]

This shows an amazing creative production in so short a lifetime! 💐

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment, which naturally enough I totally agree with.

[@Herlozpin]

Doré the biggest and significant ilustrator!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment.

[@juliomonk]

A true legend, his sense of composition and expressions were simply outstanding, one of a kind. Thank you for this video, Pete. Your whole channel is a spectacular source of inspiration.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your very positive response to this video and the channel in general. I'm very grateful for your support.

[@pompom7x728]

In my parent's library, I found Le capitaine Fracasse. To this day, it is still my favourite book. The illustrations from Gustave Doré were just the perfect addition to this marvellous book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your videos. Their quality always keep me on my toes. Sorry for the mistakes in my writing but I am French. I live in Switzerland. Take care 🤗🇫🇷🇨🇭🌺

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thabks for your comment and appreciation for the channel. And don't apologize for your English - it's absolutely fluent. And with my schoolboy French you put me to shame.

[@mugwart99]

Thank you very much. He has been at the source of my "inner landscape" for the entirety of my life. Was lovely to listen to.

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation f the video is very welcome. Like you, Doré has been with me for the best part of my life time.

[@albertcscs]

Another absolutely wonderful video Pete. I am amazed he lived so briefly but inspired so many who came after him. Now that I see his works, I realized how he inspired generations of other artists; Beardsley, Crane, Rackham, Booth, Pyle all covered the same subjects. I was fortunate to be able to see his famous sculpture ' The Vintage Vase' at the De Young museum in San Francisco during my years there.

[@petebeard]

Hi Albert and I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm glad to see it's doing pretty well for views and favourable comments. I had never encountered the vase sculptire duting my researches ( the idiosyncracies of the internet search) so I just had a look. It beggars belief.

[@maryclarafjare]

We love Doré (hubby and myself) and alwsys enjoy your videos. Thank you for all the hard work!😊

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks again for your ongoing appreciation and support.

[@jaykaufman9782]

Thank you so much! Your work is what all videos should aspire to, easily among the best on-line.

[@petebeard]

Hello and that's a very nice tging to say. Thanks a lot.

[@artemisiatenebrosa]

Thank you so much for your wonderful presentation of Doré's work. He is one of my favorite artists of all time. I'm still amazed by the volume of work he was able to create in his lifetime. Such talent!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Apparently he was so prolific that at the height of his popularity he was keeping around 40 different engravers in work.

[@humbertocarrilloramirez7989]

Doré is one of my inspiring master of Art. Thank You for bring him for your channel.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable comment.

[@carlitossalazar279]

Dore is one of the best! I didn't Knew he started that early in life and died so early! Thank you Pete just found your channel and I love it!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And I hope you find more on the channel that's of interest.

[@matthieujoly]

Gustave Doré still as such a powerful impact here in france, it's really easy to find out "Les fables de la Fontaine", which is a "classique des classiques". Thanks you again for the quality of your work, really appreciated.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you found the video of interest. Doré (and Durer) were the first artists to make a profound - and it turns out - lifelong impression on me. Thanks again for your continued support. And I hope my pronunciation isn't too mangled.

[@matthieujoly]

@@petebeard The tone of your voice, even the way the words are pronounced, (whatever language you're speaking) is a real plus/bonus to your work.

[@treasuresunderfoot7876]

Doré was a master of dark & light. His ability to to make objects or figures so dark but still remain visible is outstanding. I'm impressed with his career. He must've drawn constantly. Except when painting & sculpting 😉 Another brilliant choice for the series Pete. 👏

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usua for your comment. I'm not totally convinced he was actually human.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Wonder if the high key dark & light contrast for the main characters (as used in photography) wasn't due to the engravers Dore employed to make the finished print since his drawings are more soft grey middle tones.

[@Voirreydirector]

Truly one of the finest illustrators of literature, thank you so much for sharing these treasures.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and apreciation of the video

[@louisebendall2894]

What a talent! Just love his work, a true Master

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

[@anniebooo]

Thank you Pete, wonderful videos, stories and narrative. Best regards, Annie

[@johnnzboy]

A video on the incomparable Doré, my cup runneth over! This channel really is a treasure, allowing me to revisit the works of the (woefully few) bygone illustrators that I know and cherish as well as to discover many other talented artists who now languish in obscurity yet whose captivating and masterful images delighted and inspired thousands, if not millions, in their days. Thank you for paying homage to and shining a light on all these artists, both the heralded and the neglected, and for giving great pleasure to those of us who enjoy the endless pleasures of a line well drawn 🙂

[@petebeard]

Hello and to say thanks a lot for your comment seems inadequate. I'm overwhelmed by the positive responses I sometimes get to the channel and its content, and when I recieve one such as yours it reassures me I'm not wasting my time. Thanks again.

[@johnnzboy]

@@petebeard As an English teacher, I am in awe of your excellently scripted and evocative narration (and your fine delivery), and as a speaker of various European languages, I greatly appreciate the effort you put into the correct pronunciation of the non-English names of artists, publications etc. Bravo! The praise you receive is well-deserved.

[@Crazeyfor67]

Another wonderful presentation. Your voice is icing on a cake when viewing the fine art.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And that;s very flattering about my vocal delivery - to me it just sounds like me.

[@Thunderpuddle]

So glad you have done Dore. I have his illustrated version of Milton's Paradise Lost. So good. Great documentary as always.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment and appreciation. I struggle to find anything by Doré I don't admire, but Paradise Lost is a really significant work, so suited to his dark grandeur.

[@blank557]

Thank you for this extensive presentation on Doré. I was familiar with him, but the breath and depth of his work was previously unknown to me. I am absolutely stunned at both the quality and volume of his work. It's as if God poured the talent of 20 artists into one man, and Doré could not restrain himself from pouring out a tsunami of brilliant illustrations, paintings, and sculptures.What talent, vision, and imagination!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks fr the comment. I've always loved Doré's work since my teenage years but I must admit I was surprised to relise how little I actually knew about him and his output. Live and learn as they say.

[@marilyn1228]

What an incredible talent. The complicated details are simply astounding.

[@petebeard]

Hello and you can say that again, particularly when you consider they have been engraved in wood. My mind struggles to take it in.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Minor note: the wood engravings are etched from the end grain of the boxwood shrub/tree (guess depending on the amount of lignin in the plant cells). Boxwood has a very fine grain that will not show knife marks or chip off compared to the edge or face grain of other wood. English and French boxwood were used during Dore's time but are harder to find nowadays. So probably, it would be more difficult to reproduce Dore's look similiar to replicating John Singer Sargent's use of lead white pigment in his paintings due the availability of lead paints.

[@swesttttt]

Am new to your channel, but you’ve given me an enormous hit of nostalgia. Found the Artzybasheff video first, and I well remember many of his drawings from Time . Thank you for the wonderfully researched and produced videos!

[@petebeard]

Hello and welcome to the channe and I hope you continue to find more content that is of interest. Thanks for the positive comment.

[@vasevas1]

I adore Dore among so many athers. But importanly dear Peter, I feel myself obliged to congratulate your great work and thank you on behalf of all of as entusiast of this wonderful art. I could easily also appreciate this as another historical illustrator! Thanks again (and I am sorry for my English, as an Athenian)

[@petebeard]

Many thanks for your comment, and I am pleased you appreciate the wonders of his images. Your English is very good so do not apologise for it.

[@cjryan4097]

In my opinion, Doré is the greatest illustrator of the 19th century.

[@albertcscs]

Certainly the greatest before the advent of photographic reproduction.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I don't think there are many who would ague with you about that. A true collosus.

[@philsharp758]

Dear Mr Beard. Thank you for this presentation on a very talented artist. He seems to be influential pioneer on other visual creators as I recognised in some pictures "Jubba the Hut" and scenes from "Flash Gordon" . He may even have inspired the Martin brothers to produce their grotesque bird creamics.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the video. A talent as profound as Doré's inevitably works its magic on subsequent generations in ways we can only guess at.

[@rossmcleod7983]

Thanks again Pete. Interesting to see his consistent composition, he was clearly very fond of the diagonal.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your appreciation. He seemed to have an unfailing talent for knowing when to tighten in on his subjects, or expand for more scenic images. Just one of his enviable list of talents.

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

I first encountered Doré's work in the illustrations included in the copy of Baron Münchhausen that my granma gave me as a present, and I recall myself being fascinated by it as a child. And I realised watching this video how many classics I have on my bookshelf contains Doré's illustrations: Don Quioted, Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Orlando Furioso... his work really is timeless being still regularly published in today's paperback editions.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to this monumental figure in the history of illustration, but better late than never.

[@mikedirle520]

I thought I knew something of Dore. Once again, your research and superb presentation have overwhelmed my senses! I have a 14 year old granddaughter who is now following your narrative and unveiling of so many unknown or forgotten illustrators. Bravo!

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and I must admit in the making of the video I discovered a fair bit I had previously not known, so three cheers for lifelong learning. And many thanks for your inter-generational reruitment too.

[@danbeaudet6718]

I knew him, but not his earlier work. Thank you for tying it all together! He was a true master at hatching, wich influenced generations of illustrators! I am currently looking for 'Les fables de Lafontaine', but there are many versions.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. And that there are many versions is so much better than if there were none.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

A superb presentation of this artist's work! Well done, again, Pete. The musical accompaniment makes for a masterful video. For those of us who like to dabble in drawing, Doré is one of those illustrators who give rise to the reaction: 'just give up and die.' Regarding steel engraving, where the original copper plate is given a steel coating through electrolysis, I always understood this was to enable multiple impressions to be run through the press, rather than to increase the detail of the illustration. I must research the process further.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. And regarding the bit about steel engraving I have to admit I merely repeated what the source asserted, so it may well be that I was completely mistaken. I further admit that all that stuff seems like some form of alchemy to me as I've never done anything that wasn't printed by offset litho, or in one or two cases silk screen.

[@simonward-horner7605]

Thanks, Pete; a superb video. I love Dore; I got a book about his life and work when I was fourteen, and I still have it somewhere. Since then, I've been fascinated by him and his work. I don't know where he got the energy and levels of concentration to produce so much high-quality work at such a volume. No telly in those days. That's probably why.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and my own obsession with Dorés work started at about that age. I had no idea what an engraving was (and even now it seems like some form of alchemy to me) but more than half a century later I still get chills when looking at the images.Apparently at one point he was keeping over 40 engravers in regular work.

[@simonward-horner7605]

@@petebeard He was a prodigy, that's for sure. He was never really appreciated as a painter in his time. I wonder why - they look pretty good to me.

[@maxneild8151]

Another superb documentary. So much art out there I never knew about. I asked some months ago about an artist I was looking for. Much research led me to the madness of Kurt Halbritter's Arms Through The Ages...Well worth a look.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. And thanks for the information about Halbritter's book - completely unknown to me. I'll have to see what I can find out about him andhis work

[@joeschembrie9450]

Thank you for these beautiful, amazing videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and my thanks to you for your positive comment.

[@richardc6269]

The work u put in this piece is excellent. Most enjoyable, thank u.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.

[@krzysztofmathews738]

This is great! One of my favorite illustrators ever since I saw first his work on the "Divine Comedy"

[@petebeard]

Hello and I've very glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the appreciation.

[@Mountlougallops]

Another incredible life of an artistic genius. Thanks again Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks again for your comment. Glad you like it.

[@rofavilla]

Doré, the greatest illustrator ever, grandfather of graphic novels, hehehe. Thanks for the beautifully done video

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment.

[@chrisbgifford7387]

Beautiful detailed work. I've seen a few of the illustrations but I doubt I could lay my ungloved hands any now. Thanks for sharing

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm not convinced Doré was actualyl human.10,000 images in 35 years?

[@Undermarysmantleforever]

My favorite especially that last one 👏👏👏🌟

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very glad you enjoyed his work. Thanks for the appreciation.

[@myu4039]

Wow! Thanks so much, I needed something like this. What a talent!

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes, talent of a magnitude that makes me wonder if he was actually human.

[@naynaynay324]

The music's new, but the presentation is the usual nigh perfect "you-didn't -know-you-wanted-to-know-this" one. Well done.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and your ongoing appreciation of my work for the channel is very welcome. My sincere thanks.

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

In addition to the sheer volume of output I'm astonished at the graduated contrasts from extreme light to dark in each composition. Such severe detail. patience and persistence.

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes talent and productivity such as his are rare indeed. It's a pity his engravers don't get more credit for the images though. Apparently at the height of his career he was keeping around 40 of them busy.

[@rubengenesis100]

Thank you for all your video's.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's very welcome.

[@mijiyoon5575]

Apparently a natural born artist ... beautiful work you chose *THX Pete*

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. The hard part was having to decide what to leave out. 10,000 illustrations in 35 years...the mind boggles.

[@mijiyoon5575]

@@petebeard Yes, incredible amount of work he did

[@peterschaffter826]

Thank you, Pete. I've been so looking forward to this one.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot - I'm glad it wasn't a disappointment.

[@djanthony6662]

Doré is my personal hero and along with Cornelis Jetses has been a great inspiration for me. Thank you for this presentation, I am glad I've found your channel. Hello from your new subscriber!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and subscription. And even more thanks for the name Cornelis Jetses. He was previously unknown to me and a quick google reveals he will make an excellent feature in the unsung heroes series. I've featured other Dutch illustrators to date but he has eluded me until now. Thanks a lot.

[@ritawing1064]

Thank you for that: what breathtaking works Doré produced. I don't know whether to be glad or sorry he was not a contemporary of H.P.Lovecraft: the mind boggles at what he would have done with those tales!

[@petebeard]

Im very pleased you enjoy his work. Thanks for the comment.

[@dinneratmidnight6196]

Wow, so much talent!!!! Awesome video. Thanks Pete!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

[@wemblyfez]

Though I know the focus of these videos are focused on illustration, I'm happy to see you included some Doré paintings. I saw an exhibition of Doré in Paris in 2014 and was completely blown away by his oils; never knew the existed. I apprenticed with an illustrator when I first started out and one of the "bibles" we used was Doré's RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. The draftsmanship of those illustrations still inspire me after 40+ years (ironically, one of my first jobs as a professional illustrator was a 40 piece set of paintings for the RIME. Three guesses what I used as inspiration...). Thanks again, Pete, for another terrific walk down memory lane. Always an eye-opener.

[@petebeard]

Hi Doug, and many thanks for your comment. I envy you having seen some of his painted work. And you're right about my admittedly obsessive focus on illustration (on the channel at least) but even I'm not so churlish as to ignore such magnificent art. If memory serves - and these days it doesn't always - it was Doré and Durer who got me interested in 'proper' art in the first place.

[@cdheidt]

Amazing how much work Dore completed. Stunning work that he consistantly produced.

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's hard to imagine how one human could create so much great work in just 35 years.

[@LitHouseTieDye]

Thanks again. Your videos have a knack of showing up at the best times. I'm so glad to know more about this fascinating artist. Your videos are art in their own right. Art about art! 😍 Thanks for all your hard work. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks so much for your appreciation and longstanding commitment to the channel. It means a lot.

[@evertvandenberghe]

Another great one. Forgot about this artist for a while…. But his work is simply stunning! Tnx for reminding me about him ;£

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad I jogged your memory. My own too, for that matter.

[@gregorywhite9095]

Beautiful! Some of his images are iconic, even today. His rendering of Don Quixote is at the same level as Picasso and Daumier.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

[@vaughngaminghd]

Gobsmaked to learn that he accomplished all that by age 51! Thanks for another beautifully-produced and fascinating video, Pete…

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Im not convinced he was human...

[@Ibrapaintslight]

Something brought me here for a reason. A master and an incredible force. Wow

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your comment.

[@Cmdtheartist]

I need to get back to work. According to the Doré scale, I am, let's see...a failure. Incredible images. I have really missed out on the work of someone I thought I knew. Thanks again.

[@petebeard]

Hello and there's a line behind me in the under-achievement stakes. Doré's output tend to make us all feel that way. My theory is that he wasn't actually human.

[@michaelwhite8031]

Glad to see the channel growing. Keep up the great work.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and the channel sems to be a two steps forward, one step back sort of affair but however slowly it is heading in the right direction. Thanks for your support.

[@clemhollingsworth9885]

Your presentation prompted me to think how nice it would be to have a printed collection of his works, but about a third of the way into the video I realized how massive such an undertaking would be! I do like the color he added to his work as it was muted, less garish and less violent to the energy of his work than was the work of the colorization team who initially attempted that task. Thanks again for another wonderful upload!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for your appreciation. Much as I love his engraved images I can't help thinking how wonderful a lot of his work would have been if painted, had he been born half a century later.

[@-The-Golden-God-]

I have a piece of Doré art tattooed around my neck and on the bottom half of the back of my head. I absolutely adore it. I'm planning on covering most of my body with his works.

[@TQ_159]

Tyvm! Its was very intresting, In particular, there was not the same information in the Arabic sources , You saved a lot, really thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation 0f this video and Doré's work.

[@wynnschaible]

I have been fascinated with Doré since I came across his work in an "Arabian Nights" at age...7? One of my prize possessions is a 19th-century folio volume of Don Quixote with the COMPLETE Doré illustrations! $2.00 at the closeout of an old-book store! The binding's seen better days, but so have I. And just when I began wondering how I could scan everything I wanted for a music video without ruining the binding -- not to speak of Moiré problems -- I found the whole corpus was now online ready for screencapture! He has, IMHO, but rarely been equalled and never surpassed. And considering the huge gulf between a style consisting of nothing but lines and one composed entirely of dots (pixels) he is most unlikely ever to be. Kudos to you for this one!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for another comment. Everything used in the video was downloaded from one source or another so no books were harmed in its making. I did notice some of the images were cursed with the moiré effect as the lines fought it out with the pixcels. A great pity but inevitable I think.

[@wynnschaible]

@@petebeard So I have found it. BTW, I also have a Divina Commedia (with at least most of Doré's work) from 1947. Dover (no fly-by-night house) reprinted the Doré illustrations in the 90s. They weren't nearly as well rendered!

[@53Peterbilt]

WOW! Dore's dramatic lighting is outstanding! The way he can focus all his lighting on one subject matter, while leaving the rest of the illustration in darkness, and yet with exquisite detail is incredible!! Plus his charactures are phenomenal! One request sir, is that when you're reading things such as the titles to the books and magazines an illustrator has contributed to, please translate them into English for us. Not all of us understand French! haha Another winning episode Me Beard

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. I never know whether to use the language of the illustrator/writer or to translate, and to be honest it's a lose/lose situation as I've had complaints from both directions. All I can say is c'est la vie...

[@53Peterbilt]

@@petebeard that's too bad. I can't stand when people feel the need to complain about how someone is doing something. If they think it should have been done differently, then they can do it on their own program. As for translations, I was just hoping to learn what the title to the magazines were, but again, when I get ambitious enough to produce my own show...😄 Thanx again Pete!

[@petebeard]

@@53Peterbilt Hello again, and it occurs to me somewhat belatedly that you could just put the subtitles on - at least then you'll see the spelling of magazine and book titles and be able to track them down better.

[@1933Oliver]

Another favourite of mine. You can see how much he influenced early Hollywood as well, when you watch King Kong and the depth of those jungles are so very Dore.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed it. A talent as huge as Doré's seema able to resonate in many aspects of visual culture I think.

[@DailyPadre]

thank you for featuring Dore!

[@petebeard]

Hello and you're welcome.

[@orlane219]

Thank you so much for this inspiring video about such a great artist..

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation of the video is very welcome.

[@amougouclarke8557]

Good content, big fan of mister Doré. Thanks for this gems

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the comment.

[@theophilesignard7430]

Thank you for these amazing videos!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks to you for your appreciation of the channel.

[@ArtUnbowed]

Thankyou for a great series of videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation is very welcome.

[@lorivaldorocha7520]

Eu estava aguardando o seu vídeo sobre Doré. O conteúdo do seu canal é uma benção e um descanso para os meus ouvidos. Muito obrigado

[@petebeard]

Olá e muito obrigado pelo seu apreço pelos vídeos no meu chanel. É um grande prazer saber que os espectadores de outros países estão a desfrutar do conteúdo.

[@lorivaldorocha7520]

@@petebeard the tone of your voice is very pleasant to me.

[@jhesterarts]

Thank you for this I had no idea he had also been a painter.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Apparently in his life time he struggled to be taken very seriously as a painter by critics because of his success as as an illustrator.

[@bigblue6917]

I first discovered Dore through his illustrations of London: A Pilgrimage which I enjoyed enormously. I was fascinated by how much detail he managed to depict in each one. As I have something of an interest in the Victorian period his depictions of life in the East End of London are very much true to life.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I must say I found it surprising that a faithful and therefore unflattering account such as this would actually have enjoyed success.

[@Tanzotown]

Another bolt of inspiration and awe! Thanks so much for your dedication to these wonderful tributes. I refer everyone to them. Surely Dore was planted here from outer space… what hunan could accomplish all that?!

[@petebeard]

Hello and that's funny... my reply to the comment before yours expressed exactly that sentiment about Dorés apparently alien abilities. Makes me feel like one of the apes in 2001 (before the monoliths).