Visite Chez la Nourrice (Visit to the Wetnurse) (from Journal l'Artiste)
Victor Adam|Lemercier
19th century
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 9/16 x 10 3/8 in. (19.2 x 26.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.575
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
InfantsMenWomen
About the Artist
Victor Adam|Lemercier · 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...