Louis Paul Pierre Dumont was an accomplished French engraver and painter who is predominantly known for his wood engravings after eminent contemporaries including Gustave Doré. He also produced numerous woodcuts for newspapers such as L'Illustration, Le Journal Illustré and Le Voleur. He exhibited several times at the Paris Salon and he’s represented at The Met in New York.

The artist Henri Courselles-Dumont (1856-1918) was his son.

Exhibited

Paris Salon.

Public Collections

The Met, Carnavalet museum in Paris, Musée National de l'Éducation.

Timeline

1822

Born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Courselles-Dumont and Agathe Marie Joséphine Lepeule.

Trained in the drawing school at the Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris.

1850

Shown at the Paris Salon. Six wood engravings including a work after Joseph Vernet.

1857-1858

Worked as the editor and engraver at ‘La Lanterne Magique’. Also for the publisher Jules Hetzel.

1861

Shown at the Paris Salon.

1863

Shown at the Paris Salon.

1864

Shown at the Paris Salon.

1865

Shown at the Paris Salon. Wood engravings and a painting depicting a view near the forest of Fontainebleau.

1866-1869

Exhibited wood engravings after Gustave Doré.

1870-1882

Exhibited predominantly wood engravings and landscape paintings.

1885

Died in Paris.