About This Artwork

Lambert Sigisbert Adam
French, 1700-1759

Bust of Amphitrite, c. 1725

Terracotta
24 in. (62 cm)
Restricted gift of Mrs. Harold T. Martin, 1982.1380

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

H. Thirion, Les Adam et Clodion (Paris, 1885), p. 45 (ill.).

Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’ecole francaise 1 (Liechtenstein, 1970), cf. p. 4.

Peter Fusco, "Lambert-Sigisbert Adam’s 'Bust of Neptune'," Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bulletin 21 (1975), p. 17, cf. fig. 7.

Ian Wardropper, "Adam to Clodion: Four French Terracotta Sculptures," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (1984), pp. 23-37, figs. 1, 2.

Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 6, 12, no. 5, fig. 4.

Ownership History

Alexandre Ananoff, Paris, before 1982 [according to letter from Alexandre Pradère, 2 July 2002, in curatorial file]; sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 7 February 1982, lot 303. Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.