CHARLES HUGO or AUGUSTE VACQUERIE

Victor Hugo sur le Rocher des Proscrits, Jersey

Details

CHARLES HUGO or AUGUSTE VACQUERIE
Victor Hugo sur le Rocher des Proscrits, Jersey
Salt print. 1853. Titled and numbered 9 in pencil on the mount.
3¾ x 2 7/8in. (9.5 x 7.2cm.)

Provenance

Vacquerie-Lefèvre;
Étienne et Damien Libert & Alain Castor, Paris, February 7, 1997, lot 299.

Literature

See: Gruyer, Victor Hugo Photographe, n.p.

Lot Essay

After his exile in 1852 from France, Victor Hugo and his close relatives settled in Jersey in September 1853. To pass the time, Charles Hugo and Auguste Vacquerie took up photographing the family, making over one hundred images between 1853-54, which were collected into an album.