Ruins in an imaginary landscape

Details

Victor-Marie Hugo (Besançon 1802-1885 Paris)
Ruins in an imaginary landscape
with inscription 'Monsieur Victor hugo/Pair de France Membre de l'académie Française/6. Place Royale.' (verso, partly cut)
pen and brown ink, brown wash on light brown paper
3¾ x 10¼ in. (95 x 262 mm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Paris, 26 November 1998, lot 98.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing was executed by Hugo on the verso of an envelope sent to him between 13 April 1845, when he became Pair de France and July 1848 when he left his house on place Royale (now place des Vosges) where he had been living since 8 October 1832.
The former mount bore the date of 1847.

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