HUGO Victor : - Lot 63

HUGO Victor : Portrait of the writer with his grandson, Georges Victor HUGO. Albumen print dedicated lower right by V. Hugo to the wife of his friend, the poet and politician Eugène MANUEL. Exceptional photo with a laurel leaf pasted in the margin, from the wreath presented to the writer by the Société de Gymnastique de la Seine for his 80th birthday. Top left, handwritten inscription on a label, "laurel leaf from the wreath given by the city of Paris on February 27, 1881 and detached by Madame Eugène MANUEL for her husband. Georges HUGO". Photo by Albert Capelle studio (successor to Raoul AUBIN 45 rue Lafitte), pasted on card stock, with dedication and collage in the margins. Cardboard edges removed and missing. A precious souvenir of Victor Hugo's grandson, who was raised by the writer and inspired his famous book, L'art d'être grand-père 28x40 cm.