Accession number
PML 140569.1
Creator
Fichel, Eugène, 1826-1895.
Published
1880s?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on a leaf following page 160 of a copy of Victor Hugo's collected plays, v. II (PML 140569), 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 by the artist at lower right; caption title written at foot of sheet.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing for an illustration of the character of Didier from Victor Hugo's play "Marion Delorme", showing a full-length figure of a young man in high boots, with his plumed hat in one hand and his sword in the other, with a cloak over his forearm.
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