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W E L C O M E

Welcome to the New Gallery! The pictures contained herein are arranged in chronological order, which is to say, in the order in which what they depict happens in Les Misérables, and are grouped under the five books. Pictures are taken from sources that are long out of print, and, I think, long out of copyright. Artist's names where available (and legible) are provided in the descriptions.

Note: with regard to the T H R E E broken links: one picture is missing entirely; two are half-images that need replacing, which are not technically broken links but they are definitely not good pictures.


C O V E R  G A L L E R Y

Book covers almost invariably feature one thing: Valjean and the young Cosette. Occasionally you can find some where convict Valjean is running or hiding from Javert, but not as often. Since this scene occurs so often in covers and there's too dang many of them in the regular gallery, the book covers are now in their own section. Those book covers already put into the Gallery have been removed and put in this section.


P O R T R A I T  G A L L E R Y

This is a random collection of portraits of the characters. The goal is to get one of each character, not to have a set of any particular artist.


N E W   G A L L E R Y

T H E  L Y N D  W A R D  W I N G

Anyone who owns the Lynd Ward illustrated volumes (either the single book or the two volume set) knows that every single chapter has at least one illustration, if not two. Done in a beautiful 30's style, the characters are all well realized and the scenes are well blocked. There's so darned many of them that it will take forever to put them in order in with the rest of the illos, so until I have that much time on my hands, I'm putting them in their own side wing here for the meantime. I only have the first two books, Fantine and Cosette, coded. Others will be added as they get done.





S P E C I A L  T H A N K S

to Mersault and Lindsay for scanning pics, finding pictures and identifying their artists... you name it!

N O T E : if you know an art credit that is incorrect or has been omitted, please submit it to the website email address (located on the homepage banner) and I will add it to the list!

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T I T L E  P A G E S

Cover Page by Mead Schaeffer. I would put this somewhere else, but I have no idea what this is supposed to represent. I was thinking of having a contest to "Name the Soldiers!" but I realized that the only possible names for them are Vladimir and Estragon in the new production of "Waiting for Javert." Speculation is that between acts, the lamppost will sprout leaves.
The Convict and the Prostitute by Lix; these are frontspieces for one edition; the number and chapter title on the post changes for each one, but the picture remains the same.
Galejslaven which literally translated means "Galley Slave." Frontspiece to an 1898 Danish edition illustrated by Lewis Moe. I decided to put it here rather than put the Valjean in the sewer pic farther down the list.

B O O K  O N E :  F A N T I N E