Accession number
PML 140570.1
Creator
Zier, Édouard, 1856-1924.
Published
1900?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on a leaf following page 72 of v. IV of a copy of Victor Hugo's collected plays (PML 140570), containing his "La Esmeralda", "Ruy Blas", and "Les Burgraves", 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.
Drawing for an illustration published in an illustrated edition of Victor Hugo's Oeuvres complètes (Paris : Paul Ollendorff, 1900?).
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.
Drawing for an illustration published in an illustrated edition of Victor Hugo's Oeuvres complètes (Paris : Paul Ollendorff, 1900?).
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "Ed. Zier" at lower right.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing Illustrating Hugo's play "Ruy Blas"; a man stands in the center of the design with his sword raised as he glares at another man standing at left; at right, the queen is shown seated at a small table.
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