MAKE A MEME View Large Image Victor Hugo on His Deathbed - Getty Museum.jpg When the poet playwright and novelist Victor Hugo died in 1885 Nadar went to his deathbed to make a final image as a memorial of the great man Nadar's sketch of the death chamber showed that ...
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Keywords: Nadar, Victor Hugo on His Deathbed - Getty Museum.jpg When the poet playwright and novelist Victor Hugo died in 1885 Nadar went to his deathbed to make a final image as a memorial of the great man Nadar's sketch of the death chamber showed that black drapery was tied across a window behind the bed and then to one of the bedposts in order to visually isolate Hugo's recumbent figure against a somber background For the photograph a mirror reflected light back from the window to provide detail in the shadow area During the 1800s Hugo was thought to be France's greatest writer He began to write while still a schoolboy and his poetry was first published at twenty His wildly popular novels soon followed Hugo's troubled personal life however stood in sharp contrast to his successful career His wife was conspicuously in love with another man his favorite daughter drowned and another went mad A talented amateur artist he was interested in photography and once contemplated illustrating a book of his poems with photographic negatives By the time of his death Hugo was revered his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe and he was buried in the Panthéon Paul Nadar made this print in the 1920s from his father's negative of 1885 1885 Woodburytype Image 18 7 x 24 4 cm 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in Sheet 19 3 x 24 5 cm 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in Mount 30 8 x 38 1 cm 12 1/8 x 15 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 53927 Markings Verso mount wet stamp in blue ink Portraits / P Nadar / 45 Rue Bassano 48 / Teleph ELYSEES 7834 <br> Inscriptions Recto mount imprinted in black ink at center below image 26 Fevrier 1802 / Victor Hugo / 22 Mai 1885 credit line accession number 84 XM 1037 11 PD-100 Photographs of Victor Hugo 1885 Photographs of Victor Hugo by Nadar 1885 portrait photographs Deathbed portraits Photographs in the Getty Museum
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