(Several of the allegorical/introductory images from Leloir’s illustrations are featured at the bottom of this page.) But there have been many, many other artists who in the 170+ years since Les Trois Mousquetaires was first published have brought their own interpretations to the characters and their tale. In my opinion, the all-time greatest visual interpretation of Dumas’ musketeer tales is by French artist Maurice Leloir, who spent two years creating around 250 illustrations for an 1890s edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires. Now, since the advent of internet image searches, it is naturally far easier than it was before to assemble a large library of images which give us different artists’ interpretations of the musketeer novels’ characters and events. Ever since I became an aficionado of Dumas’ musketeer saga back in middle school (which by now was several decades ago), I’ve been collecting copies of The Three Musketeers, particularly looking for illustrated copies or other illustrated adaptations.
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