Jacob Sigisbert Adam

Jacob-Sigisbert Adam (October 28th 1670 with Nancy - May 6th 1747 in Nancy) is a sculptor French baroque.

Adam Jacob-Sigisbert was a famous sculptor and worked for Louis XIV and Louis XV, with Metz and Paris.

In Paris, he worked, like his son Lambert-Sigisbert, in the workshop of François Dumont.

Among its three sons, which followed all its lessons, Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (* 1700; † 1759) became most famous. He worked with his brother Nicolas-Sebastien Adam (* 1705; † 1778). The son junior François Gaspard Balthazar Adam will be sculptor at the court of Frederic II of Prussia.

By his Anna daughter, who married the sculptor Thomas Michel of Metz, Jacob-Sigisbert Adam was the large father of the famous sculptor Clodion.

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Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (under the direction of Jean-Rene Gaborit, with the collaboration of Jean-Charles Agboton, Helene Grollemund, Michele Lafabrie, Beatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Museum of Louvre. department of the sculptures of the Middle Ages, the Rebirth and modern times. French sculpture II. Rebirth and modern times. vol. 1 Adam - Gois, Editions of the Meeting of the national museums, Paris, 1998
Erika Langmuir, The Side Art Dictionary. One volume - 1300 -1800. Side Books Ltd. : London 1989, ISBN 0-330-30923-4
Jean de Viguerie, History and dictionary of the time of the Lights. 1715 - 1789, Paris, Robert Laffont, coll Books, 2003 - ISBN 2221048105

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