Lambert-Sigisbert Adam

Lambert- Sigisbert Adam ( born October 10, 1700 in Nancy, Duchy of Lorraine, France today, † May 13, 1759 in Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and the Rococo Preparer, the by his contemporaries and especially for his statues in the gardens castles of Versailles and Sanssouci was praised.

Also known as Adam l' aîné, ie " Adam, the Elder " - - Lambert- Sigisbert Adam was in Nancy, the eldest of three sons of the well renowned sculptor Jacob Sigisbert Adam (* 1670, † 1747 ) was born into a veritable sculptor dynasty into it.

Training

He was educated by his father in the workshops in Metz and Paris in the studio of François Dumont. After 1723 the coveted grand prix de sculpture won, Lambert- Sigisbert went by the related scholarship for ten years to Rome to perfect there at the Académie de France à Rome his arts.

Studying and working in Rome

There he fell heavily under the sway of Rome at that time very highly assessed sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose expressive language character shines through in many of the works of Adam.

During his stay, he was considered a protégé of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, the French ambassador to the Vatican, for which he copied some ancient statues and restored. So is certain that he has restored the particular clothing of around a dozen statues of the alleged "Villa of Marius ." In that phase of his election as a member fell into the Accademia di San Luca to 1732.

In the course of his long studies in Rome he acquired a technique and sensibility that marks the further transition from Baroque to Rococo. A testimony of this are his preference for arranging water scenes and the immediate " emergence " of fateful sculptures from water fountains or allegories.

This slope would Adam can live out in the event of success with the public competition for the design of the Trevi Fountain in 1731 especially. But he remained the older compatriot Edmé Bouchardon, who also dwelt for some time on the Tiber, inferior. However, Manoir de Beauregard was also unable to enjoy his success, since Pope Clement XII. could not bring his choice of the jury to follow and thus the Italian architect Nicola Salvi commissioned with the design of the Fontana de Trevi.

Lambert- Sigisbert Adam coped with this defeat well, as he received a number of other jobs in Rome, such as the a relief for the Orsini chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano.

Orders for the French and Prussian court

After his return home, Lambert- Sigisbert worked with his younger brother Nicolas- Sébastien Adam (1705-1778) continued as a team. From the French royal court, they received several orders for the large-scale decorative features of the gardens of the King. Her best-known work in this project was the development of the central group in the basin of Neptune in the palace complex of Versailles ( Triomphe de Neptune et d' Amphitrite, 1740). Already their contemporaries they praised also for the cascade of the castle of Saint -Cloud ( " La Seine et Marne La " ), which were destroyed in 1870 by the Prussians during the fighting of the Franco-German War. For admission to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1737 he created a Neptune with his trident soothes the troubled waves (Louvre).

Both the Great Adams also worked indirectly for Frederick in the complex of the Palace Sanssouci in Potsdam ( Allegory of the air, 1749). Louis XV. Frederick II had given those sculptures since he was in his own gardens was partly no place for them. The youngest of the brothers, François Gaspard Adam, was even court sculptor of the Prussian king, however, in the sequence.

Less successful with his portrait studies expected to Lambert- Sigisbert long time a bust with the idealized representation " Louis XIV as Apollo" to ( terracotta, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) whose assignment is only believable doubted already in the 1980s.

Family Adam

A native of Lorraine were the Adams from a long line of bronze casters and sculptors in Nancy. The maternal uncle of the three brothers were also very well-known sculptor Claude Michel, who was generally only called Clodion. Lambert- Sigisbert Adam took over until his early death, his education in Paris.

Works

Sculptures

  • La Douleur ( 1732), bust, marble, Rome, Accademia di San Luca
  • Apparition de la Vierge à saint André Corsini ( 1732), marble, Rome, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
  • La Seine et Marne La (1733-1734), marble, Saint -Cloud Park of Saint-Cloud
  • Neptune calmant les flots irrités also called Neptune calmant la tempête, accompagné d'un triton ( 1737), Ensemble, marble, Paris, Musee du Louvre
  • Together with his brother Nicolas Sébastien Adam, Le Triomphe de Neptune et d' Amphitrite (1735-1740), lead, Versailles, Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Also together with his brother Nicolas Sébastien Adam exterior and interior decoration of the Hôtel de Soubise (1735-1739), Paris
  • L'Air, also called Diane chasseresse or La Chasse ( 1749), marble, Potsdam, Sanssouci Palace
  • La Pêche (1739-1749), marble, Potsdam, Sanssouci Palace
  • La Grammar (1752 ), Statue, marble, Paris, Louvre: on behalf of Madame de Pompadour for the vestibule in Chateaux Bellevue
  • Portrait of Louis XV. Lorrain as Apollo, Bust, Nancy, Musee
  • Putte with lobster, Small Statuette, bronze, London, Home Gallery
  • Saint Jerome, Paris, the Invalides

Treatises

  • Adam Lambert Sigisbert, Collection de sculptures antiques grecques, et romaines, trouvées à Rome dans les ruines of romaines, trouvées à Rome ..., Paris 1753.
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