Pair Of Lithographs, Cars, 1828

Pair of color lithographs
Roulier and Cuckoos Car
Drawings by Victor Adam (1801-1866)
Engravings by Charles Motte (1784-1836)
Car 3 and Car 6 out of a series of 36 dating from 1828.

Roulier Car
25 x 31 cm
12 x 19 cm

Cuckoo Car
27 x 34 cm
12 x 22.5 cm

Victor Adam (1801-1866)
He was the son of Jean Adam, whose first principles of drawing he acquired, he entered at the age of 13 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and remained there until 1818. For four years he frequented the Meyniern workshops of Baron Regnault, when at 18 he began at the Salon of 1819 with his painting Herminie helping Tancrède with great success. Victor Adam has an extraordinary imagination, an easy drawing and the technical knowledge that classical teaching can provide. He won two medals at the Salon, one in 1824 and the second in 1836. 
At the time of the constitution of the Museum of Versailles Adam was one of the first artists called. 
He exhibited at the Salon of 1837 the Combat of Werdt and the Capture of Menin, in 1838 the Entrance of the French Army to Mainz and the Combat of Varoux. 
Four paintings today in the collections of the Palace of Versailles. 
From 1848 he stopped painting to devote himself to lithography and published Une an de la Vie de Jeune Homme.