|
See also:DORE, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE (1832-1883) , See also:French artist, the son of a See also:civil engineer, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 6th of See also:January 1832. In 1848 he came to See also:Paris and secured a three years' engagement on the See also:Journal pour rire. His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and among the books he illustrated in rapid See also:succession were See also:Balzac's Conies drolatiques (1855), See also:Dante's Inferno (1861), See also:Don Quixote (1863), The See also:Bible (1866), See also:Paradise Lost (1866), and the See also:works of See also:Rabelais (1893). He painted also many large and ambitious compositions of a
religious or See also:historical See also:character, and made some success as a sculptor, his statue of See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas in Paris being perhaps his best-known See also:work in this See also:line. He died on the 25th of January 1883.
End of Article: DORE, LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE (1832-1883)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!