Croquades
1833
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
270; 337
About this artwork
blad: hoogte 270 mm x breedte 337 mm
Art Historical Context
**Croquades** is a captivating lithography by French artist Victor Adam, created in 1833. 270 mm high by 337 mm wide, this sheet exemplifies the intimate scale of early 19th prints, perfect for collectors and enthusiasts. Adam (1801–1865), a master of Romantic-era genre scenes and theater illustrations, used lithography—a revolutionary technique invented decades earlier—to capture spontaneous sketches, or *croquades*, with fluid lines and expressive detail directly drawn on lithographic stone. Lithography's beauty lies in its ability to mimic the artist's hand, bridging fine art and mass repr...
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...