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Gustave Doré Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Gustave Doré available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Gustave Dore at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Alpine Torrent
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tavern in Whitechapel, 1869
Illustration for Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard"
The Gorge, 1878
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Punishment of Evil Counselors, engraving, 1864
Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)
Les saltimbanques (Zoom)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Christmas Eve
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" The Enigma
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
4 works online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Young Lions, Mature Lions (Foolish Lions)
Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Lionnes et leurs Petits
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
10 works by or related to the artist
Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
3 works online
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
A Couple and Two Children Sleeping on a London Bridge, 1871
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
La Folie
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Mountain Landscape, 1877
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
A total of 2 works online
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Andromeda
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Little Red Riding Hood
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
The Deluge
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
Jacob's Dream
Christ Taken Prisoner in the Garden
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Liam's Pictures from Old Books 
Gustave Dore at The Art Renewal Center
Gustave Dore at The Athenaeum
Gustave Dore in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Art Passions
Gustave Dore at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Catholic Resources
See the "complete list" pages in particular for enormous scans of Doré's Bible illustrations
Gustave Dore at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Faeries at LaLa's Land
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
University of Leipzig, Germany
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Dore Illustrations
Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature
Doré's visions of the Apocalypse
Jean-Claude Claeys Home Page (in French)
Illustration from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
London and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Illustrations for the book, London, A Pilgrimage
Nina Auerbach's Homepage
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Rocbo Culture (in French)
The Androom Archives
Sorrow for the lost Leonore
The Illustrations of Gustave Dore (German language PDF format)
Numerous illustrations, better suited for printing than viewing online
The Victorian Web
The Visual Telling of Stories
UK Government Art Collection
Worldwide Church of God
This page and many of the linked pages have huge biblical illustrations by Gustave Doré
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gustave Dore 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Spartacus Educational Books
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