Scene of a Parisian insurrection in rue Plumet (June 1832?)
Graphite and grey wash.
Located lower left in pen and brown ink The corner of rue Plumet, and to the right The large door a little wider; on the side upper right The Light comes from here.
In the middle bottom in pencil Babylon at 2 o'clock.
14.5 x 20 cm
In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, recounting the republican uprising of June 1832, his young hero
Marius, leaves from the rue Plumet to the barricade in the rue de la Chanvrerie.
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