Scottish Landscape
Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
1873
- Medium
- Black crayon and brush and brown and gray wash, with touches of pen and black ink, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream board
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 28.1 × 44 cm (11 1/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Everett D. Graff Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Doré visited Scotland in April, 1873, with plans to enjoy salmon fishing, but after several tries he abandoned fishing and preferred to occupy himself with his sketchbook. He drew landscapes of the Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Braemer, Balmoral, and Ballater, and in his travels experimented for the first time with the exclusive use of watercolor.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
