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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.865
People
Alphonse Legros, French (Dijon 1837 - 1911 Watford, England)
Victor Marie Hugo, French (1802 - 1885)
Title
Portrait of Victor Hugo
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1878
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297624

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, and metalpoint on prepared white laid paper
Dimensions
40 x 27.1 cm (15 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
I.E. Mann. Frank E. Bliss. [Scott & Fowles, New York] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, December 5, 1924, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.865
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Lithographs by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) from the Collection of Frank E. Bliss, Esq..., auct. cat., Grosvenor Gallery (London, May 1922), no. 77
  • Greg Stone, Artful Business: 50 Lessons from Creative Geniuses (Boston, 2016), p. 10, ill. (color)
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 111, 282, repr. p. 110 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

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