'Favorite'-omnibus wordt gepasseerd door een fiaker

About this artwork

blad: hoogte 260 mm x breedte 350 mm

Art Historical Context

Victor Adam's *'Favorite'-omnibus wordtasseerd door een fi* (1830) is a lively lithography capturing the hustle of early 19th-century urban life. The scene depicts a horse-drawn omnibus named "Favorite" being swiftly passed by a fiaker—a sleek, one-horse cab popular in Paris—highlighting the competitive rhythm of street transport. Measuring 260 mm high by 350 mm wide, this print freezes a fleeting moment amid the clatter of hooves and wheels, evoking the vibrant energy of France's capital during the July Monarchy. As a master lithographer, Adam (1801–1865) specialized in documenting Parisian ...

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...