Portrait of Victor Hugo, glass plate c. 1900

Portrait of Victor Hugo.

Format 10 x 8.5cm with stand The Arlesian Suitcase

HOUSE OF GOOD PRESS. Rue Bayard. Paris

Series: History of France

Initially used with the magic lantern for entertainment, the photographic plate established itself in the last quarter of the 19th century as a tool particularly suited to the production and dissemination of knowledge, but also aesthetically as a tourist object, a witness to great journeys or important events.