Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II

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Lot 347
  • 347

After a model by Lambert Sigisbert-Adam (1700-1759) French, 19th century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Bust of Louis XV as Apollo
  • terracotta
  • After a model by Lambert Sigisbert-Adam (1700-1759) French, 19th century
 

Provenance

Hôtel Drouot Paris, 18 March 1988, lot 15

Catalogue Note

According to Antoine Coypel's memoir, Adam's bust of Louis XV in the guise of Apollo was designed for the gardens at Choisy and modelled in his presence. A terracotta version was presented by Adam at the 1741 Salon. Thirion illustrates an engraving of a version in the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild with a different socle (op.cit., p. 127).

RELATED LITERATURE
H. Thirion, Les Adam et Clodion, Paris, 1885, pp. 125-127