Accession number
PML 140569.3
Creator
Anonymous, French School, 19th cent.
Published
1880s?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
An illustration for Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse.
Item mounted on a leaf following page 332 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.
Item mounted on a leaf following page 332 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.
Description
1 drawing.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing illustrating Blanche's murder at the hands of Saltabadil; Blanche enters through a doorway, wrapped in a cloak, as Saltabadil stands behind the door at right with his knife raised and ready to strike and his sister, Maguelonne, stands looking on at left.
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