ANDRÉ, photographer in Guernsey (active 1860s-1890s) - Lot 2

ANDRÉ, photographer in Guernsey (active 1860s-1890s) VICTOR HUGO on the terrace of Hauteville House in GUERNESEY, surrounded by family and friends (including fatherless Jeanne and Georges), 1878. Original vintage print, on albumen paper, mounted on paper and cardboard from an old frame. Photograph format. 17.4 x 23.5 cm. Mounting size. 27.7 x 35 cm. Condition report. Proof with homogeneous tonalities. Provenance: Family through descent from Richard Lesclide (1825-1892) writer, pressman, friend and volunteer secretary to Victor Hugo (Richard Lesclide, standing, appears on the left of the photograph). Hauteville House was Victor Hugo's residence from 1855 to 1870, during his period of exile. After his return to France in 1870, he returned to the house three times: for a whole year in 1872, for a week in April 1875, and for almost four months in 1878. Pictured left to right: Richard Lesclide, Louis Koch standing (nephew of Juliette Drouet) and his son seated, then Juliette Drouet, Victor Hugo, Jeanne Hugo leaning towards him, Julie Chenay (née Foucher, sister of Mme Adèle Hugo), Alice Lockroy (widow of Charles Hugo), Georges Hugo as a child, Pauline Ménard (future wife of Georges Hugo) and Mme Ménard-Dorian his mother.