Tigre royal
1843 - 1844
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
488; 317
About this artwork
height 317 mm x width 488 mm
Art Historical Context
**Tigre Royal by Victor Adam (1843–1844)** Victor Adam, a prominent French lithographer of the Romantic era (1801–1865), the majestic power of a royal tiger in this striking print. Created between 1843 and 1844, *Tigre Royal* measures 317 mm high by 488 mm wide, making it an accessible yet impressive wall piece for 19th-century homes. Adam's work often celebrated the wild beauty of animals, reflecting Europe's growing fascination with exotic wildlife amid colonial expeditions and expanding zoos like Paris's Jardin des Plantes. Lithography, Adam's favored medium, revolutionized art reproducti...
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...