Victor Hugo

Estate of the artist (stamped with the Gâtine inventory stamp and numbered 108/847)
Georges Hugo (grandson of the artist)   
François Hugo (son of the above)  
Purchased by the late owner in 1988

Kunsthaus, Zürich, Victor Hugo 1802-1885, Phantasien in Tusche, 1987, no. 26
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery; Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Victor Hugo and the Romantic Vision, Drawings and Watercolors, 1990-1991, no. 26
Valencia, Fundacion Bancaja, A travès del Claroscuro, 1996, no. 21
Aix-en-Provence, Galerie d'Art du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Victor Hugo et les siens. Deux siècles d'art et d'artistes, 2002
New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co. and Jan Krugier Gallery, The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions, 2005-06

Roger Cornaille, Georges Herscher, Victor Hugo Dessinateur, Paris, 1963, p. 94, catalogued, p. 156, illustrated, no. 209
Jean Massin, Victor Hugo, Oeuvres Complètes (éd. Chronologique), 1969, vol. I, p. 156, no. 209
Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 405, illustrated
The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., Venice, 1999, p.405, illustrated
Pierre Georgel, 1850, Le Burg à la croix, exh. cat., 2007, p. 96, no. 71, illustrated

The sheet has been backed with japan paper. There are old losses at two outer corners (outside the composition and not visible in the catalogue illustration), a number of small tears and a small circa 2 by 1.5cm loss at the extreme left edge of the sheet, and a small 0.5cm old puncture in the background in the lower-left quadrant. There are a number of light old scattered creases notably horizontal and vertically crossing in the centre (some faintly visible in the catalogue illustration), and an old mat mark parallel and near the edges of the sheet. The colours of the sheet are somewhat lighter and richer in reality than in the illustration, and less pink overall. Presented framed and glazed, the extreme edges of the sheet covered by the mat.
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