Chap. XIV: Quels inhumains! me mettre dehors! (How inhuman to put me out-of-doors!)
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
14 1/4 × 10 1/16 in. (36.2 × 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.570.3(14)
Tags
MenSnow
About the Artist
Victor Adam|Langlumé|Sazerac and Duval · 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...