Victor ADAM - A Soldiers' Halt or the Courtier Soldier

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Victor ADAM - A Soldiers' Halt or the Courtier Soldier

Name: Victor ADAM - A Soldiers' Halt or the Courtier Soldier
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: U94868MVMX
Price: 1200 EUR
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By Gallery Tristan de QUELEN
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1.200 €

Period 19th century

Style Louis-Philippe-style

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Jean-Victor, known as Victor ADAM
Paris, 1801 – Viroflay, 1866
A Soldiers' Halt by the Sea, or The Courtier Soldier
Oil on canvas
33 x 24.5 cm (42 x 34 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower left "Victor Adam / 1825"
Pitch pine frame
Very good condition

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A painter of military subjects, Victor Adam created about ten paintings for the Palace of Versailles on the theme of Napoleonic battles. He also became known as a lithographer and draftsman, producing nearly eight thousand plates from the 1820s onward.
Our painting is signed and dated 1825. It is therefore an early work on the Napoleonic theme. A genre scene with soldiers in the company of a young woman, presumably near the sea. Perhaps an episode from the war during a campaign in northern France or Belgium. For example, there is a color lithograph by Charles Motte from 1829 based on an original drawing by Victor Adam, entitled "First Distribution of the Legion of Honor at the Boulogne Camp, August 16, 1804."
Victor Adam studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a student of the academic painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault. The rendering of textures is very refined, and the colors are beautiful, as always with Victor Adam; for example, here the soldiers' uniforms or the water cascading over the dog emerging from the water.

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Additional Information

Condition	Very good
Style	Louis-Philippe-style (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes of Louis-Philippe-style Style)
Period	19th century (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes 19th century)
Country of origin	France
Artist	Victor ADAM
Width (cm)	24.5
Height (cm)	33
Materials	Oil on canvas