
Bust of Amphitrite
Lambert Sigisbert Adam · c. 1725
Provenance
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 as workshop of Carpeaux. Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, European Terracotta Scupture from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 17, 1983 [no cat.].
Literature
Published references
- Peter Fusco, "Lambert-Sigisbert Adam’s 'Bust of Neptune'," Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bulletin 21 (1975), p. 17.
- James Wood, "A Record of Sharing with Chicago's Masterpiece," A Supplement to the 1982-83 Annual Report (Chicago, 1983), p. 16 (ill.).
- Ian Wardropper, "Adam to Clodion: Four French Terracotta Sculptures," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11,1 (1984), pp. 23-27, 34-36, figs. 1, 2.
- Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154,6 (September 2001), pp. 6, 12, n. 5, fig. 4.
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