Accession number
PML 140542.1
Creator
Vogel, H. (Hermann), 1856-1918.
Published
1880s
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on a leaf at the front of a copy of Victor Hugo's Odes et ballades (PML 140542), 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 "H Vogel" at lower left.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing show three women in medieval dress on an outdoor patio, one young woman seated in a chair with a book in her lap as she listens to an elderly woman who kneels beside her at right and whispers in her ear; a second young woman stands with her back to the viewer at left, while in the background at right a man, heavily shrouded, stands looking on.
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