Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris

Luc-Olivier Merson, c. 1881

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Artist: Luc-Olivier Merson (French, 1846–1920)
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black wash, white gouache and graphite on paper
Size: Sheet: 32.6 x 21.7 cm (12 13/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Culture: France, 19th century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

Victor Hugo's celebrated 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, a disfigured orphan raised by the archdeacon of Notre Dame cathedral 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. This drawing by Luc-Olivier Merson was reproduced as a wood engraving in an illustrated tribute to Hugo published in 1881.

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