Portrait of Victor Hugo Antique Art Print ~ Monchablon

Antique Goupil & Cie. photogravure art print from the picture by Xavier-Alphonse Monchablon.

Printed on mid-weight ivory colored stock. Reverse side is blank.

Title: Victor Hugo

Publication: The Masterpieces of French Art

Publication Year: 1883

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 11 x 14

Approximate Image Size (in inches): 7 x 10

Condition: Very nice, clean condition. Atticpaper.com watermark does not appear on actual print.

Victor Hugo, the veteran poet, is represented standing on the rocky coast of the Island of Jersey. As he serenely communes with nature by the restless, complaining sea, and beneath a stormy sky, he affords a noble type of a soul uplifted above the petty cares and ignoble passions of the common life. The highest artistic taste has been shown in the choice of accessories, and in the draping of the form, the result being an effect of dignity and grandeur, -- an effect which is at once heightened and softened by the poet's snowy locks and gentle, thoughtful expression. The artist has, by his fine idealization of the subject, produced a veritable apotheosis by the employment of purely natural means.

In a perfectly legitimate way he has thus distinguished his illustrious model as a character separated, from his contemporaries by his genius, and challenging their homage by the purity and beneficence of his life.