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.
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
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
Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
…style. He was born in Nancy and died in Paris. Adam was the youngest of the three sons of the sculptor Jacob Sigisbert Adam of Nancy. His brothers Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and François Gaspard Adam were also sculptors. In 1757, Adam married Christine Lenoir, the daughter of a goldsmith in Nancy. They had two sons, the…
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau's reception piece for the Académie, 1753 (Louvre)
Neptune, 1725 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)