Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
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Lambert-Sigisbert Adam was a French sculptor, born in 1700 in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers Nico
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau's reception piece for the Académie, 1753 (Louvre)
Neptune, 1725 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
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Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, also called "Adam the Younger", was a French sculptor working in the Neoclassical style. He was born in Nancy and died in Paris.
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
…in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné ("the elder") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, known as "Adam le jeune" ("the younger"), and François Gaspard Balthazar Adam. His sister Anne Adam married Thomas Michel, an undistinguished sculptor…
Portrait of the sculptor Adam by Étienne Aubry
The Adam family home in Nancy
Prometheus Bound (1762), Adam's reception piece for the Academy
Religion Instructing an Indian (1745), expressing the colonialist attitudes of 18th-century Europe