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Notre-Dame de Paris, c. 1881. Creator: Luc-Olivier Merson (French, 1846-1920) .

Notre-Dame de Paris, c. 1881. Victor Hugo's celebrated 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris tells the story of the grotesque and deformed Quasimodo, an orphan raised by Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the church of Notre Dame 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. The sheet's imagery brings to mind a passage from the text: "The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.".

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Title: Notre-Dame de Paris, c. 1881. Creator: Luc-Olivier Merson (French, 1846-1920) .

Caption: Notre-Dame de Paris, c. 1881. Victor Hugo's celebrated 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris tells the story of the grotesque and deformed Quasimodo, an orphan raised by Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the church of Notre Dame 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. The sheet's imagery brings to mind a passage from the text: "The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone."

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Image size: 3370 × 5000 px | 48.2 MB

Print size: 28.5 × 42.3 cm | 1326.8 × 1968.5 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: 1846-1920) • 1846-1920 • 19TH CENTURY • AND GRAPHITE • BLACK AND WHITE GOUACHE • BRUSH AND GRAY WASH • CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, THE • DRAWING • FRANCE • FRENCH • LUC-OLIVIER MERSON (FRENCH • LUC-OLIVIER MERSON • PEN AND BLACK INK