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Intimacy Depicted: Drawings by Victor Hugo

Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim

After 18 months of renovation, Victor Hugo's house in Paris duly has welcomed its first visitors with a presentation focusing on the "great man" from a more personal angle.

Victor Hugo (1802-1880), Paysage aux trois arbres ou Ecce Lex (Landscape with three... Intimacy Depicted: Drawings by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1880), Paysage aux trois arbres ou Ecce Lex (Landscape with three trees or Ecce Lex), 1854.
Paris Musées/Maisons de Victor Hugo Paris-Guernesey

Here the idea is to explore Hugo's relationship with drawing from an intimate perspective, and show that although he drew for almost fifty years, he did so mainly for himself and his close circle. Visitors…
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