Augustin-Eugène Scribe with Characters
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 8 15/16 in. (32.7 x 22.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Source unknown
Accession Number
1993.1085
Tags
BearsGirlsMenPortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Victor Adam|Lemercier|Charles Tilt|Jte. Bourmancé|Augustin-Eugène Scribe · 1801–1866
Victor Adam was born in Paris in 1801 and built a prolific and commercially successful career as one of the leading lithographers and illustrators of nineteenth-century France. He received a conventional academic training in painting, but it was the new medium of lithography — still in its first decades of widespread use when Adam came of age — that provided the ideal vehicle for his gifts: a faci...