Portret van François-René de Chateaubriand en negen voorstellingen uit zijn roman 'Atala'
1834
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
361; 275
About this artwork
De serie bestaat uit twaalf prenten.
Art Historical Context
In 1834, French lithographer Victor Adam created *Portret van François-R de Chateaubri en negen voorstellingen zijn roman 'Atala*, a captivating series of twelve prints measuring 361mm by 275mm. This features a portrait of the renowned Romantic author François-René de Chubriand alongside nine vivid illustrations drawn from his 1801 novella *At*. Chateaubriand, a pivotal figure in French literature and politics, drew inspiration from his travels in North America for this tale of forbidden love between a Christian settler and a Native American warrior amid the wilds of 18th-century Louisiana, bl...
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...