PCT4271549: Engraving by Gustave Dore illustrating Theophile Gautier's novel “The Captain Fracasse””. Charpentier Edition 1863. In the residence of the Baron de Sigognac, the “Chateau de la Misere”, a troop of comedians found refuge. Three actresses fell asleep in a large bed on which the black cat Belzebuth just jumped, awakening Isabelle frightened. Sleep - Insomnia., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285084: Cartoon by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for the Tales Drolatiques (1855): the writer is croque as an enthomologist studying human beings like insects in his cabinet filled with enthomology and dissection drafts as well as jars with fetus affected by deformmites (beak of hare...) - transcendental enthomology - human comedy -, Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images