Accession number
PML 140543.1
Creator
Zier, Édouard, 1856-1924.
Published
1880?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on a leaf at the front of v. II of a copy of Victor Hugo's Poésie (PML 140543), containing his Les orientales and Les feuilles d'automns, the volume issued as part of a set of his collected Oeuvres complètes, published in Paris by J. Hetzel in 46 volumes between 1880-1883.
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "Ed. Zier" at lower left.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing Illustrating to Hugo's poem "Sara la baigneuse", from Les orientales, showing a woman lying in a hammock suspended over a stream.
Classification
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