Gustave Doré (Strasbourg 1832-1883 Paris)
Gustave Doré (Strasbourg 1832-1883 Paris)

The Ogre: a bedtime scene with a bearded man and five children sleeping

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Gustave Doré (Strasbourg 1832-1883 Paris)
The Ogre: a bedtime scene with a bearded man and five children sleeping
signed 'G Doré'
pencil, brush and black ink, grey wash, bodycolour, on two joined pieces of box tree wood
7½ x 9 1/8 in. (19.1 x 23.2 cm.), octagonal
Engraved
as L’Ogre, in Le Petit Poucet from Les Contes de Perrault, Paris, Goupil et Cie, 1862, pl. 6.

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