Liberty
c. 1865–75
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash and gray and white gouache with graphite
- Dimensions
- 46.5 × 32.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210547
Gustave Doré is best known for his skill as a draftsman (often seen in book illustrations), as well as for his sense of the fantastic and visionary. In the present drawing, his fluid washes and flowing lines of white add to the dramatic scene of a liberating angel breaking chains. The drawing relates to Doré's Defense of Paris (Memories of 1870), which treated an event from the recent Franco-Prussian War with a figure representing Liberty. A major difference between the painting and the drawing is that Doré represented soldiers in contemporary uniforms in the painting, but in the drawing of L…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.383
Registry history
- c. 1865–75 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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