Jean Victor Adam was a French painter and lithographer. Jean Victor Vincent ADAM was born in Paris on January 28, 1801. First son of Jean Louis ADAM (1758 - 1848) and Elisabeth COSTE. His father was a composer, music teacher and virtuoso pianist (his second brother, Adolphe Charles (1803 - 1856) was also a composer). He marries Eugenie JACOB. He received his first artistic lessons from his father. Gifted, in 1814, at the age of 13, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He remained there until 1818. During these 4 years, he first attended the studio of Charles MEYNIER, then that of Baron REGNAULT. At 18, Victor exhibited his first paintings at the Salon of 1819. In 1824, then in 1836, he received a medal. In 1824, he tried the lithography and it was finally in this form of artistic expression that he expressed himself, making nearly 8,000 plates. From 1848, the productions took on an increasingly commercial character. Emmanuel Bénézit said of him "One would have thought that a future great painter was added to the masters of the French School ... Victor ADAM possessed an extraordinary imagination, an easy drawing and the technical knowledge that education can provide. classic ... like many painter of his time, Victor Adam, in 1824, had tried his hand at lithography ... and the artist took such a taste for this expression of his easy talent that he stopped painting . Adam was he aware of what his painting had factitious and superficial, he devoted himself to drawing on stone because of the more remunerative product, the field of assumptions remains open .... As pointed out. with reason M. BERALDI, it is unfortunate that the artist did not moderate his extraordinary facility; he could have claimed a modest place next to his great contemporaries. " Jean Victor died in Viroflay on December 30, 1866.