Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo ... While Hugo had no training in art, he was a dab hand with his chosen ...

A curator has brought out the annotated manuscript of Victor Hugo ... Delacroix said Hugo would have been “the greatest of the century” had he concentrated on art, but Hugo focused on ...

The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy review : 'unnerving' - 3/5 Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a ...

Although better known for his sprawling Romantic novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, celebrated French author Victor Hugo spent much of his time drawing.

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Victor Hugo’s The Town of Vianden, with Stone Cross (1871) Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits Alastair Sooke Chief Art Critic 18 March 2025 2:07pm GMT ...

Find out more about the extraordinary artistic career of French writer and statesman Victor Hugo. When Victor Hugo died in 1885, aged 83, over two million people lined the streets of Paris to see his ...

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Hugo once said that he had ‘missed his true vocation’ and was ‘born to be a decorator’. Best known as a writer, he was also a politician, a skilful and inventive draughtsman, and had a passion for ...

Juliette Drouet, the lover of ­Victor Hugo for half a century, enjoyed one great consolation for his absence when he was at home with his wife: his visual art. As she put it in a letter to Hugo ...