“The popular idol of the day, in the world of art, is Paul Gustave Dore, the most versatile, the most prolific but at the same time one of the most unequal artists of modern France. He is all the rage ...

The death of Gustave Dore at the age of 51 finds the world unprepared. Was he as old as that? one asks, and at the same time a short mental calculation of the length of years during which he has ...