Keywords: Gustave Doré - Landscape in Scotland - Walters 372625.jpg As a native of Alsace in eastern France and lacking the formal training provided in Paris Doré began his career as an illustrator and remained outside the mainstream of French painting His dramatic landscapes with their grand vistas and turbulent skies reflect the Romantic movement that had prevailed in French art a generation earlier Doré visited Scotland on a salmon-fishing expedition in 1873 and over the next eight years he painted a number of scenes based on his sketches of the Scottish landscape Doré is perhaps best known for his illustrated Bible 1866 This proved to be an important calling card for the artist enabling him to open the Doré Gallery in New Bond Street London where this painting was probably originally exhibited ca 1878 Oil on canvas cm 131 196 accession number 37 2625 20158 Baronne G Paris Commissaire-priseur Laurine Palais Galliera Paris June 23 1964 lot 75 Huntington Hartford Collection New York 1965-1983 on loan 1965-1969 to the Gallery of Modern Art New York no 65 1 Huntington Hartford Sale Sotheby's New York May 26 1983 Private collection 1983-1985 Walters Art Museum 1986 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1986 G Doré ~ lower left Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 place of origin Scotland place depicted Scotland Walters Art Museum license 2D Scotland in art French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings by Gustave Doré 1870s landscape paintings 1870s paintings from France |