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Gustave Doré

Tavern in Whitechapel, 1870

Description

Maker

  • Gustave Doré, 1832-1883, French

Title

Tavern in Whitechapel

Year

1870

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Supports

  • wove paper

Dimensions

35.9 x 25.8 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, LL, in opaque watercolor: G. Doré; inscribed, LL, in opaque watercolor: Whitechapel / Londres / 1870

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus

Object Number

51.082

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

French Drawings in the Time of Degas

August 19, 2005 - January 22, 2006

Although Doré’s dark-toned art had only minor significance for Degas, Doré’s representations of familiar urban subjects resembled and even anticipated Degas’s own versions. Doré depicted contemporary life with biting realism, and his greatest achievement was his collaboration with the English journalist Blanchard Jerrold on London: A Pilgrimage (1872), to which Tavern in Whitechapel is related. In these vignettes, Doré recorded the details of London’s broad social panorama, emphasizing the contrast between rich and poor. With his deft use of gouache and ink, he registered an agonizing vision of a dense crowd in a claustrophobic space. Images like Tavern in Whitechapel epitomize some of the horrors of 19th-century urban life with a piercing intensity foreign to many Impressionist artists.

Selection V

April 29 - May 25, 1975

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