Mare and Foal
Victor Adam|Godard, Paris
19th century
Medium
Lithograph, hand-colored
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 15/16 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edith P. Blase, 1944
Accession Number
44.91.51
Tags
Horses
About the Artist
Victor Adam|Godard, Paris · 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...