Passe-tems
Victor Adam
1833 - 1837
Medium
chalk lithograph
Dimensions
362; 272
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
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...