Notre-Dame de Paris
c. 1881
- Medium
- pen and black ink, brush and black wash, white gouache and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.6 × 21.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192365
Victor Hugo's celebrated 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, a disfigured orphan raised by the archdeacon of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Hugo's novel became an important influence on many artists and helped to define a poetic view of the medieval period and of Gothic architecture that lasted well into the second half of the century. This drawing by Luc-Olivier Merson was reproduced as a wood engraving in an illustrated tribute to Hugo published in 1881.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.359
Registry history
- c. 1881 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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