Victor HUGO Photoglyptie 24x19 Photo BERTALL Contemporary Gallery 1876 + text

Victor hugo. Full-length photographic portrait, shot by bertall & cie. Photoglyptie on thin paper laminated on strongly titled cardboard, taken from the book "la galerie contemporaine littéraire, artistique, publication hebdomadaire formant album de luxe", paris, 126 boulevard de magenta, 1876. Photo goupil & cie - cliché bertall & cie. Photoglypty dimensions: 24 X 19 cm. Box dimensions: 34.5 X 26.3 cm. Very good condition. We attach the text that accompanied the photo (biography, autograph reproduction), 4 pages, some freckles. Two different portraits of victor hugo were offered in the contemporary gallery following delivery, both with the same presentation text, the first being a famous shot of carjat, the second being this one, much less frequent... The complete collection of the contemporary gallery consists of 242 biographies illustrated with 410 photographs, including 241 portraits reproduced in photoglypty by goupil et cie. The photographs are by: antoine samuel adam-salomon; eugene appert; benque & klary; benque et cie; charles bertall; bertall et cie; michel berthaud; white numa; adolphe block; boussod, valadon et cie; alphone braun; braun and company; étienne carjat; carjat et cie; caret; chambay; prudent rené patrice dagron; dardoize; fountain; franck; anatole godet; goupil et cie; jonaty; charles klary; jacques edmond maurice lecadre; augustine aimé joseph the younger; fernand lochart; charles marville; achille mélandri; charles-louis michelez; ferdinand mulnier; felix nadar; étienne neurdein; pierre petit; emile tourtin; emile valéry. Preceded by: our contemporaries. - paris (boulevard magenta 126), 1876: 5 portraits and 3 reproductions of painting: From 1876 to 1880: weekly deliveries (1 to 235, 237) offering alternating 2 series: - first series: writers, musicians, etc. (photographic portraits on non-text plates, autographs of li.