Soldier on a horse with a woman beside him
mid–19th century
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 5/16 × 1 7/8 in. (5.8 × 4.8 cm) Mount: 12 x 3 7/16 in. (30.5 x 8.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012
Accession Number
2012.401.6c
Tags
Art Historical Context
Victor Adam's *Soldier on a Horse with a Beside Him*, a mid-19th-century lith, captures a fleeting moment of human connection amid equestrian grandeur. This petite print, measuring just 2 5/16 × 1 7/8 inches on its sheet, exemplifies the intimate scale of 19th-century ephemera, now preserved on a larger 12 × 3 7/16-inch mount. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, it was generously gifted by Dr. Stephen K. and Jan Woo Scher in 201. As a French artist (1801–1865) aligned with Romanticism, Adam specialized in lively military and genre scenes, often featuring horses as sym...
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...