About the Artwork
Boy with a Lobster
ca. 1740
Lambert Sigisbert Adam
1700-1759
French
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 9 5/8 × 8 11/16 × 6 5/8 inches (24.4 × 22.1 × 16.9 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
28.86
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Provenance
1928-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heil, Walter. "Two Pieces of French Sculpture of the 18th Century," Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 2 (November 1928): pp. 22-23.
Ceysson, Bernard, Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, François Souchal. Sculpture, the Great Tradition of Sculpture from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Geneve, 1987, p. 275.
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Lambert Sigisbert Adam, Boy with a Lobster, ca. 1740, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.86.
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