Portret van Alphonse de Lamartine en negen voorstellingen uit zijn 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (1830)

About this artwork

number: ‘492’

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...