Author: ADAM, Victor
Title: Scènes Militaires
Description: Paris: Delpech, Editeur, 1829. Extraordinarily Rare Suite of Military Scenes Six Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Victor Adam ADAM, Victor. Scènes Militaires par V. Adam. 1829. Paris: Delpech, Editeur, 1829. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches: 210 x 282 mm.). Hand colored lithograph vignette title-page and six superb hand colored plates, lithographed by Dellpech and mounted on stubs. Modern purple cloth over boards, spine with black morocco label lettered horizontally in gilt. Rare: OCLC/KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. We have been unable to trace any copies at auction over the past one hundred years. A very rare suite of military scenes. In over fifty-five years of dealing in rare books, I have never seen this title before (DJB). Jean Victor Adam (1801-1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam, an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 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, amongst which are, '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,' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: '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 numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity, till 1846, when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography, to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album, 'Views in the Environs of Paris,' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon,' &c. He obtained 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 1866. “Beraldi assigns between 7000 and 8000 designs to Victor Adam [1801-1865]-A Parisian by birth, he remained in the capital all his life, but this did not prevent him from drawing negroes, Turks, Chinese, and other peoples all over the world in his Paris studio. He was famous, indeed, as a faiseur de bonshommes, that is to say a specialist in adding groups of small figures to the foreground of architectural or landscape drawings by other artists-His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 194). The Plates: 1. Passage de Troupes 2. Souvenir 3. Chasseurs a Cheval dans un d'Éfilé 4. La Giberne doie etre le miroir du troupier. 5. Voltigeurs en Reconnaissance 6. Conscrit de la Patience. Et de la moële dans les os. Not in Colas, Hiler or Lipperheide. .
Keywords: Books in French Caricatures Naval and Military French Caricature
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Title: Scènes Militaires
Description: Paris: Delpech, Editeur, 1829. Extraordinarily Rare Suite of Military Scenes Six Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Victor Adam ADAM, Victor. Scènes Militaires par V. Adam. 1829. Paris: Delpech, Editeur, 1829. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches: 210 x 282 mm.). Hand colored lithograph vignette title-page and six superb hand colored plates, lithographed by Dellpech and mounted on stubs. Modern purple cloth over boards, spine with black morocco label lettered horizontally in gilt. Rare: OCLC/KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. We have been unable to trace any copies at auction over the past one hundred years. A very rare suite of military scenes. In over fifty-five years of dealing in rare books, I have never seen this title before (DJB). Jean Victor Adam (1801-1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam, an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 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, amongst which are, '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,' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: '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 numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity, till 1846, when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography, to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album, 'Views in the Environs of Paris,' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon,' &c. He obtained 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 1866. “Beraldi assigns between 7000 and 8000 designs to Victor Adam [1801-1865]-A Parisian by birth, he remained in the capital all his life, but this did not prevent him from drawing negroes, Turks, Chinese, and other peoples all over the world in his Paris studio. He was famous, indeed, as a faiseur de bonshommes, that is to say a specialist in adding groups of small figures to the foreground of architectural or landscape drawings by other artists-His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 194). The Plates: 1. Passage de Troupes 2. Souvenir 3. Chasseurs a Cheval dans un d'Éfilé 4. La Giberne doie etre le miroir du troupier. 5. Voltigeurs en Reconnaissance 6. Conscrit de la Patience. Et de la moële dans les os. Not in Colas, Hiler or Lipperheide. .
Keywords: Books in French Caricatures Naval and Military French Caricature
Price: US$ 2500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05998
- Book number: 05998
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