Cris de Paris et moeurs populaires / Cries of Paris and Plebeian Customs
Victor Adam
1832
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
487; 316
About this artwork
height 487 mm x width 316 mm
About the Artist
Victor Adam · 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...