Souvenir of a Castle in Vosges1857
Victor Hugo painted this in 1857, aged 55. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Victor Hugo painted this in 1857, aged 55. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Opaque watercolour
- Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
Victor Hugo
French, 1802–1885 · Born in Besançon; died in Paris.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2012.17
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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