Series of Six Fabulous Coloured Lithographs by Victor Adam depicting scenes of six Amazon women on horseback in battle with wild animals. Date 1851. Size plus frame: Height 65 cm, Width 75 cm and Depth 3 cm with image Size: Height 37 cm, Width 50 cm
Signed. Printed Signature ''V. Adam'' with publisher''s blindstamp and have been framed to museum quality.
Jean Victor Adam (28 January 1801 – 30 December 1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Adam was born in Paris in 1801, the son of Jean Adam, an engraver. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1814–18, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault.
In 1819 he exhibited Herminia succouring Tancred. He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, including The Entry of the French into Mainz, The Battle of Varroux, The Taking of Menin, The Battle of Castiglione, The Passage of the Cluse, The Battle of Montebello and The Capitulation of Meiningen the last three in collaboration with Jean Alaux.
He continued to exhibit until 1838, his subjects including Henry IV., after the Battle of Coutras, Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri, The Postillion, The Vivandiere, The Road to Poissy, The Return from the Chase, Horse-fair at Caen, and many others. He then disappeared from public view until 1846, when he exhibited some lithographs, dedicating himself to the medium from then on. In this line he produced a lithographic album, Views in the Environs of Paris, Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon, etc. He won a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1867.
In his Coloured Lithograph''s here are the following as the individual pictures are shown:
Plate 1 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache. Camille, Reine des Amazones, 1851. Size Plate 37 x 50 . Fine-coloured tinted lithograph with small margins after J.M Rugendas. A half-naked w
...oman on horseback, with helmet, sword and tiger-skin blanket. Plate I of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam
Plate 2 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache. Combat a L'' Arc, 1851. Fine-coloured tinted lithograph with small margins after J.M Rugendas. A half-naked woman on horseback, bow drawn, with a lion-skin blanket. Plate 2 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
Plate 3 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache., Victor Adam Chasse avec le Javelot, 1851. Fine coloured tinted lithograph, small margins after J.M Rugendas. A half-naked woman on horseback, wielding a javelin in her right hand, in her left hand she holds two further weapons. Beneath her horse is a recently killed leopard. Her saddle cloth is a lion''s skin. Plate 3 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
Plate 4 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache. Chasse un Tigre, 1851. Fine coloured tinted lithograph, small margins after J.M Rugendas. A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe
down on a tiger biting her horse''s haunch. Her saddle cloth is a black panther''s skin. Plate 4 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
Plate 5 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache. Victoire de L'' Amazone, 1851. Fine coloured tinted lithograph, small margins after J.M Rugendas. A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe
down on a centaur. Her saddle cloth is a tiger''s skin. Plate 5 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
Plate 6 - Victor Adam, Published: Lemercier, Paris, H. Gache. Défaite de L'' Amazone, 1851. Fine coloured tinted lithogr
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Dateline of this antique is 19th Century
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