• Victor Hugo [copy 2].

Language:
  • English
Creator:
  • Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
Call number:
  • D West 44/GC102/Box 01/Normal GA 2006.01551
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 31.7 x 22.9 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Portraits
Description:
  • Medium: Drypoints
  • Depiction: Two times the head of Victor Hugo: first, frontal view.
  • Item description: Probably 4th or 5th state.
  • Signed in plate, left: "AR".
  • Rodin materials come from the collection of Rene Cheruy, onetime secretary of Rodin and later teacher of French at the Loomis school in Windsor, Connecticut. The materials were donated to Princeton by several of Cheruy's former students.
Publisher:
  • 1885.
Subject:
  • Portraits, French—19th century
  • Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885—Portraits
  • Novelists, French—19th century—Portraits
  • Poets, French—19th century—Portraits
  • Dramatists, French—19th century—Portraits
  • Authors, French—19th century—Portraits
  • Portraits
Date:
  • 1885
References:
  • Delteil no. 7
  • Princeton University Library Chronicle XXVII, no. 1 (Autumn 1965).
  • Roger Marx no. 1083
  • Thorson no. IX
Range label:
  • Logical
Etcher:
  • Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of a group that included Jewett T. Flagg, James Parton, and William H. Scheide, students of Rene Cheruy.
Location:
  • Special Collections D West 44/GC102/Box 01/Normal GA 2006.01551
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcvm40z3844