Victor Adam

Jean Victor Adam (28 January 1801 – 30 December 1866) was a French painter and lithographer.

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1814–18, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault.

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.