Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002472Fairy Land
by Gustave Doré
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right, in ink: "Gv Doré / 1881".
Provenance
Kate S. Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; Kate Buckingham estate; given to the Art Institute, 1938.
Exhibition history
La Société d'Aquarellistes Français (Society of French Watercolor Artists), Paris, 1881, cat. 1. New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, "Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré," January 23-April 22, 2007, cat. 190, cat. by Eric Zafran, et. al. Ottowa, National Gallery of Canada, "Dore: Master of Imagination", June 13 - September 14, 2014, p. 269, fig. 234, cat. by Philippe Kaenel, et. al.
Publications
Gaîte Dugnat, La Societe d'Aquarellistes Français 1879-1896 (Dijon, 2002), 1881, no. 1.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Doré / French, 1832-1883
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 64.8 × 89 cm (25 9/16 × 35 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1938.1959
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