Original portrait photograph of Victor Hugo, circa 1870s

Victor Hugo (subject)
J.M. Lopez (photographer)

Paris: J.M. Lopez, Circa 1870s. Vintage albumen carte-de-visite photograph of Victor Hugo in 1988. Photograph mounted on stiff card as issued, with the name of portrait photographer J.M. Lopez on the bottom edge of the recto, and his insignia on the verso, along with an annotation in manuscript ink identifying Hugo.

In 1870 Hugo returned to France after nearly two decades living abroad, following Napoleon III's coup d'état at the end of 1851.

4.25 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned.


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