Portrait of Victor Hugo

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Portrait of Victor Hugo
Portrait of Victor Hugo
Artist/Maker (French, 1837 - 1911)
Date1918
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsComposition: 4 1/2 × 3 5/8 in. (11.4 × 9.2 cm) Sheet: 13 in. × 9 1/2 in. (33 × 24.1 cm) Plate: 4 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (11.4 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of David Lewis, Class of 1982, in honor of William Salzillo's ten years of service as director of Emerson Gallery
Object number1992.31
Not on view
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Provenance 1992: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of David Lewis
Signature Signed in plate at upper right: A. Legros
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil at lower left:P M.T. 12 IV Portrait (of Victor Hugo / in earlier states); in pencil at lower left: The Artists Father [struck through]; in pencil at lower center: 17; in pencil at lower center: A18582; in pencil at lower right: from the collection of C. Napier Henry / RA. / 1918; in pencil at lower right: [right arrow] C.N.H. [underlined]; in pencil at lower right: 12; in pencil on verso at lower left: C65682 [underlined] / a5 / a58537 [struck through]; in pencil on verso at lower left: 12A; in pencil on verso at lower center: 35 [encircled]
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