| Show gustave goltare dore dora gustave doro dore died at 50 prom from th 66 age of 20 to 35 he be moved in a round ot of brilliant brilli anc triumph and thence to the theand end flown the bill of dis disappointment sap he ha cared no DO longer for designing and the art critic did not care for his hia big pictures ho he died too soon to read the dore gallery prospectus which filled the papers some years ago dore spoke english 1 indifferently although he be was U always l meaning to learn the language he liked britons and their ways but not their dinner parties it is the din oer iier parties that trill kill me he laid eaid once how long and how bow stupid spid they arel dore was one of the race of inar marvelous boys for at the age of 4 he be painted a grand battle piece which wo we are told displayed fire and force and movement at 15 his father took him to paris for his hia holidays when gustave saw the gr r he be at one anco e said this is the place lor me but how was it to be done only by taking bin future into his own hands he made IS 12 comic drawings of tho the labors of hercules and took them to the editor of the journal pour rim bire the editor glanced at them and at once offered the boy a salary of 8 1 1000 a year on an the paper his father returned homo home alone he then did what lauy other artists would do if their oculists would permit them he painted by sunlight and worked for publishers by gaslight A proud and precocious genius his imagination agi nation brimming bri 1 aming over with good things he could not be bothered with academic routine so he entered himself at no school of a art rt but made a rush for the goal with a sneer at the trouble of training his illustrations made a book pon through countless editor as and saved at least one publisher from froin ruin ho he painted a number of popular pictures ho be became the rage aud and then he died new york ledger |
