Man wearing an apron and a hat
mid–19th century
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 5/8 in. (9.4 × 6.7 cm) Mount: 12 5/16 x 18 1/16 in. (31.3 x 45.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012
Accession Number
2012.401.4i
Tags
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...