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Portrait of Victor Hugo
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Portrait of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo | Célestin Nanteuil | Eugène Renduel

1833

Medium

Etching

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Dimensions

Plate: 9 3/8 × 6 1/8 in. (23.8 × 15.5 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (27 × 17 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Victor Hugo

1802–1885 • France

In addition to his literary output, Hugo produced a large number of visual works on paper. These constitute a mass of drawings in various media, comprising views of landscapes and buildings drawn from life or wholly imagined. He employed experimental techniques, using stencils, and impressions of fabric or other objects. He often reworked inkblots or stains into fantastic landscapes or figures, though some of these works remain purely abstract.

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