Lithograph, Return From Chantilly, Adam Victor, Circa 1860

Return from Chantilly
Victor Adam
Lithograph and watercolor
Around 1860

Paris jeannin publisher place du Louvre, 20
Victor Adam
Imp. by Lemercier Bernard et Cie

Dim: 27 x 39 cm
Dim frame: 43.5 x 56.5 cm

Victor Adam (1801-1866)
He was the son of Jean Adam from whom he received the first principles of drawing, he entered the age aged 13 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and remained there until 1818. For four years he attended the Meyniern workshops of Baron Regnault, when at the age of 18 he debuted at the Salon of 1819 with his painting Herminie rescuing Tancrède with great success. Victor Adam has an extraordinary imagination, easy drawing and technical knowledge that classical education can provide. He obtained two medals at the Salon, one in 1824 and the second in 1836. When the Versailles Museum was established, 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 Entry of the French Army into 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 Un an de la Vie de Jeune Homme.