(Victor HUGO) (Auguste VACQUERIE)
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Victor Hugo et d'Auguste Vacquerie devant la fenêtre de Marine Terrace.
Jersey s. d. [entre 1852 et 1855]|6.20 x 7.50 cm|une photographie contrecollée sur carton
Salt print from a calotype, mounted on cardboard.
Handwritten annotation by poet Henry Dérieux on verso: "Hugo et Vacquerie, photographie donnée par Larguier avec son livre un dimanche de l'été 1914" (Hugo and Vacquerie, photograph given by Larguier with his book on a Sunday in the summer of 1914).
Portraits of Victor Hugo and Auguste Vacquerie in front of the window of Marine Terrace, the house inhabited by the Hugo family during their exile in Jersey between 1852 and 1855.
The salted paper calotype process, recently introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot, produced images with a matt appearance and naturally warm tones, albeit with little contrast.
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