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DorΘ, (Paul) Gustave (1832-1883), the most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th century, whose highly imaginative theatrical engravings accompanied many literary classics. Born in Strasbourg, DorΘ was drawing caricatures at the age of 15 for the Paris Journal pour Rire. He won acclaim with his illustrations for an 1854 edition of the works of Franτois Rabelais. Thereafter he illustrated numerous books, including editions of HonorΘ de Balzac's Droll Stories (1855), Dante's Inferno (1861), Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1862-1863), John Milton's Paradise Lost (1865), and the Bible (1866). Because of insufficient training, his draughtsmanship was often faulty, but he excelled in conveying dramatic action in mysterious, gloomy settings. He was so prolific that at one time he employed more than forty blockcutters. His work is characterized by a rather na∩ve but highly spirited love of the grotesque and represents a commercialization of the Romantic taste for the bizarre. Drawings of London done in 1869-71 were more sober studies of the poorer quarters of the city and captured the attention of van Gogh. In the 1870s he also took up painting (doing some large and ambitions religious works) and sculpture (the monument to the dramatist and novelist Alexandre Dumas in the Place Malesherbes in Paris, erected in 1883, is his work).