Accession number
PML 140556.1
Creator
Laurens, Jean-Paul, 1838-1921.
Published
1881?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
An illustration for Victor Hugo's "La légende des siècles".
Attribution from Barbou.
Item mounted on a leaf at the front of a copy of v. III of Victor Hugo's Drame (PML 140556), 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.
Attribution from Barbou.
Item mounted on a leaf at the front of a copy of v. III of Victor Hugo's Drame (PML 140556), 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.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing of the head of a woman, facing right.
Classification
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Department