Madame la duchesse de Nemours
Victor Adam
1841 - 1842
Medium
paper
Dimensions
565; 394
About this artwork
height 394 mm x width 565 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...