Portrait of Victor Hugo
Medium
Etching
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)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929
Accession Number
29.18.4(1)
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Victor Hugo|Célestin Nanteuil|Eugène Renduel
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, t...