
Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval)
A dark engraving shows a man in a long coat climbing a stone staircase beside barred gates, while a skeletal figure with a long pole looms above him. A pale spectral form and a crowd of ghostly figures glow in the upper left.
- Artist
- Gustave Doré
- Date
- 1855
- Medium
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
- Size
- 2776 × 4000 px
Public domain · Gustave Doré died 1883 and the work dates by 1855; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: CC0
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: CC0
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Gustave Doré, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)





