Portrait Medal of Victor Hugo
Artist: Alfred Borrel (1836 - 1927) Primary
Date:
1884
19th century
Dimensions:
2.7 in. (6.85 cm)
Dimensions Extent:
diameter
Object Type:
Medal
Creation Place:
Europe, France
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Credit Line:
Museum purchase, 2016
Accession Number:
2016.18.01
On View:
Bellarmine Hall Galleries, Print Case
French Romantic poet, author and dramatist Victor Hugo (1802-1885) appears on the obverse of this medal looking to the left; with his furrowed brow, loosened cravat, and gently rumpled coat, his appearance hearkens to the 19th-century Romantic ideal of the artist. The medallist Alfred Borrel included his signature and the date 1884 at the lower left. On the reverse, a palm of honor and a starburst emanating light appears beside NÉ À BESANÇON DOUES LE 26 FEVRIER 1802, commemorating Hugo’s birth on February 26, 1802 in Besançon. Hugo would die just a year after this medal was cast. He was buried with full state honors in the Panthéon in Paris, in a crypt shared with fellow authors Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.
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