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Lot Essay
En 1852, quelques mois après sa sortie de prison suite à la publication d’un article contre la peine de mort, Charles Hugo rejoint son père, son frère et leur ami Auguste Vacquerie dans leur exil jersiais. Ensemble, conscients du tournant majeur que constitue l’invention de la photographie, ils créent l’atelier Hugo-Vacquerie, connu également sous le nom d’atelier de Jersey. Charles Hugo va, sur les instances de son père, perfectionner sa technique de la photographie sur papier à Caen, auprès du photographe, Edmont Bacot (1814-1875). Dans une lettre à sa mère du 31 mars 1853, Charles évoque les fruits de son apprentissage, et mentionne « Je crois que le voyage à Caen était indispensable. J’en reviendrai photographe de première force […]. J’emporterai une provision de notes très détaillées et très précises. […] De cette manière, rien ne nous échappera de ces délicates opérations… (lettre conservée à la Maison de Victor Hugo, inv.583 citée in En collaboration avec le soleil. Victor Hugo Photographies de l’exil, Musée d’Orsay et Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, 1999, p.158.
Henry Samuel à qui, Victor Hugo dédicace ce tirage, éditeur et libraire belge basé à Bruxelles, est connu pour avoir publié des œuvres de Victor Hugo pendant son exil notamment Les Châtiments en 1853.
In 1852, a few months after his release from prison following the publication of an article opposing the death penalty, Charles Hugo joined his father, his brother, and their friend Auguste Vacquerie in exile on Jersey. Together, fully aware of the major turning point represented by the invention of photography, they established the Hugo-Vacquerie studio, also known as the Jersey studio. At his father’s urging, Charles Hugo went on to refine his paper photography technique in Caen under the guidance of the photographer Edmont Bacot (1814-1875). In a letter to his mother dated March 31, 1853, Charles referred to the results of his training, writing: “I believe the trip to Caen was indispensable. I shall return from it a first-rate photographer […]. I shall bring back a supply of very detailed and very precise notes. […] In this way, nothing in these delicate operations will escape us…” (letter preserved at the Maison de Victor Hugo, inv. 583, cited in En collaboration avec le soleil. Victor Hugo Photographies de l’exil, Musée d’Orsay and Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, 1999, p. 158).
Henry Samuel, to whom Victor Hugo dedicated this print, was a Belgian publisher and bookseller based in Brussels, known for having published works by Victor Hugo during his exile, notably Les Châtiments in 1853.
Henry Samuel à qui, Victor Hugo dédicace ce tirage, éditeur et libraire belge basé à Bruxelles, est connu pour avoir publié des œuvres de Victor Hugo pendant son exil notamment Les Châtiments en 1853.
In 1852, a few months after his release from prison following the publication of an article opposing the death penalty, Charles Hugo joined his father, his brother, and their friend Auguste Vacquerie in exile on Jersey. Together, fully aware of the major turning point represented by the invention of photography, they established the Hugo-Vacquerie studio, also known as the Jersey studio. At his father’s urging, Charles Hugo went on to refine his paper photography technique in Caen under the guidance of the photographer Edmont Bacot (1814-1875). In a letter to his mother dated March 31, 1853, Charles referred to the results of his training, writing: “I believe the trip to Caen was indispensable. I shall return from it a first-rate photographer […]. I shall bring back a supply of very detailed and very precise notes. […] In this way, nothing in these delicate operations will escape us…” (letter preserved at the Maison de Victor Hugo, inv. 583, cited in En collaboration avec le soleil. Victor Hugo Photographies de l’exil, Musée d’Orsay and Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, 1999, p. 158).
Henry Samuel, to whom Victor Hugo dedicated this print, was a Belgian publisher and bookseller based in Brussels, known for having published works by Victor Hugo during his exile, notably Les Châtiments in 1853.