2111
1835
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
276; 360
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Victor Adam's *2111* (1835)** into the vibrant world of19th-century French lithography with Victor Adam's *2111*, a finely executed print measuring 360mm high by 276mm wide. Created in 1835 during the July Monarchy, this work exemplifies Adam's prowess as a leading lithographer his era. Born in1801, Adam was for his lively genre scenes illustrations that captured the spirit of Parisian life, blending Romantic flair with keen observational detail. Lithography, a revolutionary technique invented just decades earlier, allowed artists like him to draw directly on stone with greasy crayon, prod...
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...