[ADAM, Jean-Victor (1801-1866)]

Лот 126
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Лот 126 | [ADAM, Jean-Victor (1801-1866)]
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[ADAM, Jean-Victor (1801-1866)]

Military Exploits of France and England from 1853 to 1856. Paris: Gosselin, [n.d. but c. 1860].

Rare suite of plates detailing in dramatic fashion the ‘victories of the allied armies in the East, the campaigns on the Baltic and the memorable siege and taking of Malakoff and Sebastopol’ (preface). Born in Paris, Jean-Victor Adam was a celebrated French painter and lithographer, following in the footsteps of his highly respected engraver father, Jean Adam. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, from 1814 to 1818, under the tutelage of artists Charles Meynier (c. 1768-1832) and Jean-Baptiste Régnault (1754-1829). Most famed for his military-themed paintings, Adam carried out various commissions for the Palace of Versailles, such as The Entry of the French into Mainz and The Battle of Varroux. This present suite displays the artist’s talent for combining the narrative drama of classical painting with the accurate documentation required of recording military operations. The lithographs capture in detail the naval and army tactics employed by the allied armies during the Crimean War, whilst also dramatically imagining such scenes as ‘Taking of Bomarsund’ where troops are depicted engaging in hand-to-hand combat, whilst a tattered French flag waves victorious over the scene. Bobins II, 339.



Oblong folio (474 x 615mm). Lithographic frontispiece and 23 plates and one lithographic folding map at rear, all finished in colour by a contemporary hand, accompanied by 24 leaves of descriptive letterpress printed in French and English (soiling, spotting and occasional marginal tears and chips to leaves, most heavily affecting letterpress, leaf of preface with margins restored, fold in map plate reinforced with tape on verso). Modern Calf-backed marble boards, with portion of original cloth laid down to front board, cloth with ornate decoration and letters stamped in gilt, spine gilt (extremities rubbed, most heavily affecting cloth, spine sunned).





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