{"id":4758,"date":"2019-11-14T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T11:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:54:47","slug":"25-dessins-de-gustave-brion-pour-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/25-dessins-de-gustave-brion-pour-les-miserables\/","title":{"rendered":"Une rare suite de dessins de Gustave Brion pour les Mis\u00e9rables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<strong>Victor Hugo, <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><br \/>\nA Lausanne : Albert Larpin, 1862, 10 tomes en 5 vol.<br \/>\n<\/strong>AZ 8960<\/p>\n<p>Exemplaire incomplet du 1er vol. (t. 1-2), enrichi d&rsquo;une suite de 14 illustrations photographiques (tirage sur papier albumin\u00e9) attribuable \u00e0 Gustave Brion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Victor Hugo souhaitait que la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition de ses \u0153uvres ne soit pas illustr\u00e9e. Aussi, en 1862, devant le succ\u00e8s des <em>Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, Gustave Brion eut l\u2019id\u00e9e de r\u00e9aliser une illustration ind\u00e9pendante. Il produisit ainsi vingt-cinq dessins, entre avril et juillet, qu\u2019il fit reproduire en photographies, s\u2019associant avec Faucheur et Danelle. Vendues \u00e0 la pi\u00e8ce ou en album, elles furent tir\u00e9es et mont\u00e9es sur carton, en trois formats diff\u00e9rents, dont les deux plus petits correspondaient \u00e0 ceux des \u00e9ditions belges et fran\u00e7aises [et suisses!] permettant aux amateurs de les faire relier dans leurs volumes. S\u2019arrachant \u00e0 des milliers d\u2019exemplaires, leur succ\u00e8s suscita la convoitise de l\u2019\u00e9diteur du roman qui obtint un int\u00e9ressement \u00e0 l\u2019affaire sous menace de la faire interdire. De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, Victor Hugo loua la qualit\u00e9 et la justesse des dessins de Brion (\u00e0 l\u2019exception des portraits de Fantine et de Javert). Cette premi\u00e8re illustration cr\u00e9a v\u00e9ritablement les types visuels des personnages qui furent tr\u00e8s souvent et durablement repris par la suite.\u00a0\u00bb (<a href=\"https:\/\/parismuseescollections.paris.fr\/fr\/maison-de-victor-hugo\/oeuvres\/fin-d-eponine#infos-principale\">r\u00e9f.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/files\/2019\/11\/AZ_8960.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/files\/2019\/11\/AZ_8960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37257,37277,37268,37258,37278,37259,37281],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-gallery","6":"category-19e-siecle","7":"category-19e-siecle-2018","8":"category-2015-2018","9":"category-livres-illustres","10":"category-livres-illustres-2018","11":"category-valdensia-vaudois","12":"category-valdensia-2018","13":"post_format-post-format-gallery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}