Harvard Art Museums > 1943.865: Portrait of Victor Hugo Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Portrait of Victor Hugo (Alphonse Legros)(Victor Marie Hugo) , 1943.865,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 29, 2023, https://hvrd.art/o/297624. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.865 People Alphonse Legros, French (1837 - 1911) 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 Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/14/2022 - 02/27/2023 Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
