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Gustave DORE & DESCHAMPS

Charles Perrault, Contes, La Belle au Bois Dormant, Le Château endormi. Gravure originale sur bois de fil, tirée sur Vélin fort

Hetzel, Paris 1862, 13,5x24,5cm (cuvette: 19,5x24,5cm), une feuille.

Woodcut wire signed in the plate by the artist and engraver. Composition made by Gustave Doré, engraved by Deschamps on Vellum strong at the request of the publisher Hetzel to illustrate his Folio edition in the Tales of Perrault in 1862 Some foxing in margins not involving the drawing. These illustrations of the tales are considered the most successful of this text: Gustave Doré offers a dramatic vision unprecedented. With him, everything contributes to the dramatization of the story, from the theatrical staging of the table down to the smallest details that create a terrifying realism thanks to the so-called "wood stain" technique. It uses ink or gouache, previously diluted as is the technique of "wash". For Perrault's tales, the eleven best writers of the time were enlisted to burn chisel forty planks: Pannemaker, Pisan, Pierdon, Maurand, Boetzel, Brevière, Hebert, Deschamps, Dumont, and Delduc Fagnon . The work of Gustave Doré as part of the Tales of the illustration is paramount; it does not reduce its ornamental engraving function but becomes a real object of narration. These illustrations are the most famous works and Doré received rave reviews immediately, especially that of Sainte-Beuve in The New Monday (23 December 1861): "An Perrault as there ever was, and as far no one will see. (...) I can only say that these drawings seem very beautiful, a rich and opulent turn, they have a grandeur that renews the appearance of these tales are humble and makes them their first pre-Perrault even wonderful. "

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