Edmond Bacot
Portrait de Victor Hugo
Salt print
28.2 x 22.7 cms
11 1/16 x 8 14/16 ins
11 1/16 x 8 14/16 ins
9486
Bacot was part of a school of photographers based in Normandy. He studied in the studio of Paul Delaroche alongside Charles Negre and Gustave Le Gray at the Ecole des...
Bacot was part of a school of photographers based in Normandy.
He studied in the studio of Paul Delaroche alongside Charles Negre and Gustave Le Gray at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and initially exhibited as a painter before taking up photography.
In 1852, he met Victor Hugo on the Isle of Jersey after which he gave photography courses to the writer's son, Charles. Hugo described Bacot's photographs of Gothic cathedrals as "marvels" and later wrote to Bacot, "I congratulate the sun for having a collaborator such as you." Hugo's love for these photographs clearly stemmed from his own romantic views of the medieval.
This portrait of the artist exemplified their longstanding friendship.
He studied in the studio of Paul Delaroche alongside Charles Negre and Gustave Le Gray at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and initially exhibited as a painter before taking up photography.
In 1852, he met Victor Hugo on the Isle of Jersey after which he gave photography courses to the writer's son, Charles. Hugo described Bacot's photographs of Gothic cathedrals as "marvels" and later wrote to Bacot, "I congratulate the sun for having a collaborator such as you." Hugo's love for these photographs clearly stemmed from his own romantic views of the medieval.
This portrait of the artist exemplified their longstanding friendship.
Provenance
Marc Pagneux, NormandyLiterature
For more information about Victor Hugo and photography, as well as related images, see: Musée d'Orsay et Maison de Victor Hugo, En collaboration avec le soleil Victor Hugo photographies de l'exil, 1998.1
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