Victor Hugo - Photograph in carte-de-visite format by Bertall.

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Victor Hugo – Photograph in carte-de-visite format by Bertall.

Albumen print mounted on thin cardboard, depicting Hugo, standing with his arms crossed.

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Victor Hugo (1802.1885)

Photograph in business card format (cdv)

Albumen print mounted on thin cardboard, depicting Hugo, standing with his arms crossed.

Circa 1865.

Photograph by Charles Albert d'Arnoux, known as Bertall

Size: 6.5 x 10.3 cm.

Slight tab mark on the back.

Charles Albert d'Arnoux, known as Bertall (1820-1882) was one of the pioneers of photographic art. He collaborated with Hippolyte Bayard from 1855, then opened with him the Bayard and Bertall photography studio at 15 bis rue de la Madeleine in Paris in the early 1860s and until 1866, when he set up on his own.