Harvard Art Museum
London Dray Driver, 1880
review by Shannon Wu
London Dray Driver was a French artist, Gustave Doré’s
drawing piece made in 1880. The mediums of which were used to complete the
piece were watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper. The piece
used minimum amount of color, mostly brown and grey, to delivery a sorrowful
mood from the driver in the painting and the artist himself. The light and
shadow of the watercolor was impressive. Having a detailed watercolor object
placed in the center of the piece with people and buildings painted with only
grey watercolor in the background brought the focus to the driver even more. Though
the background was painted with light grey watercolor and was meant to create a
foggy effect in the environment, Doré did not spare out the details of the
building with windows and people’s facial expressions with different shades of
grey. He gave just enough details to portray their identities and emotions but
still not remove reviewer’s attention off the main focus of the piece, the dray
driver and his horses.
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