Accession number
PML 140572.1
Creator
Zier, Édouard, 1856-1924.
Published
1880s?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustration for an illustrated edition of Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamne (Paris : A. Michel, 188-?).
Item mounted on a leaf facing page 175 in a copy of Victor Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamne (PML 140572), 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.
Item mounted on a leaf facing page 175 in a copy of Victor Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamne (PML 140572), 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.
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist at lower left.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows the condemned man sitting on the floor of his dark prison cell, with a small lamp at his feet at left.
Classification
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