Schetsen van diverse onderwerpen
1833
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
269; 342
About this artwork
height 269 mm x width 342 mm
Art Historical Context
Victor Adam's *Schetsen van diversewerpen* (Sketches of Various Subjects), created in 1833, the artist's skill as a French lithographer during the Romantic era. Measuring 269 mm high by 342 mm wide, print captures Adam's talent for quick, expressive drawings across a single sheet—a format popular for compiling studies of everyday scenes, figures, and motifs. Adam (1801–1865), known for his lively depictions of Parisian life, military personnel, and equestrian subjects, often produced such lithographs as affordable alternatives to paintings, making art accessible to a broader public. Lithograp...
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...