Trycicle

About this artwork

blad: hoogte 261 mm x breedte 346 mm

Art Historical Context

Victor Adam's *Trycicle* (1830) is a charming lithograph capturing the spirit of early 19th innovation. Measuring 261 mm high by 346 mm wide, this print exemplifies Adam's skill as a French artist known for his lively depictions of Parisian street life, horses, and emerging modes of transport. Born in 1801, Adam was a prolific lithographer during the July Monarchy, a period of rapid urbanization and technological curiosity in France following the 1830 Revolution. Lithography, the medium here, revolutionized printmaking since its invention in 1798. Artists like Adam drew directly onto limeston...

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...