Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden

Gustave Doré

1862 · Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache on wove paper · Drawings and Prints

This study of a group of elegant gamblers gathered around a black-jack table in the German resort of Baden-Baden was a study for the central portion of a large painting Doré completed in 1862 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1867.

Artist

Gustave Doré

Date

1862

Medium

Graphite, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white and gray gouache on wove paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2014