L'Éclair (Lightening), from Sonnets et eaux-fortes (Sonnets and Etchings) (The Thunderstorm)
Victor Marie Hugo, French, 1802 - 1885
1868; published 1869
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Plate: 8 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (21.6 × 14.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Maida and George Abrams
PR.970.31
Publisher
Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, France
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate: Victor Hugo; dated, lower edge: 1868
Course History
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, inaugural exhibition, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 30, 1972.
Provenance
Maida Stocker Abrams (1938-2002) and George S. Abrams, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1970.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Adhemar, Inventaire du fonds francais apres 1800, vol. 10, p. 528, no. 4.
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