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Object Type
Museum number: 1949,0411.3755
Title: Object: Buste de Victor Hugo
Description: Bust of Victor Hugo, on white ground, after Rodin; impression signed by Lepère. 1902 Wood-engraving printed in brown and grey
Producer name: Block cut by: Auguste Lepère; After: Auguste Rodin
School/style
Production date: 1902
Materials
Technique: wood-engraving; colour
Dimensions: Height: 73 millimetres (image area); Width: 71 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This state, where only two out of the three colour blocks are printed, is not recorded by Texier-Bernier. Published in a leaflet entitled published in 'Discours prononcé à la cérémonie du Panthéon par M. Gabriel Hanoteaux, de l'Académie Française, le 26 février 1902' and in 'Centenaire de Victor Hugo' (Paris: Ferroud, 1902).
Bibliographic references: Lotz-Brissonneau & Texier-Bernier 2002 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé d'Auguste Lepère (282) (undescribed state); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (266)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1949
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1949,0411.3755

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