Les Adam : La Sculpture En Héritage

Exhibition at the Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, 18 September 2021 - 9 January 2022

Originally from Nancy, the Adam family is the largest dynasty of French sculptors of the 18th century. Over three generations, its members worked in Rome, Paris, Versailles and Berlin in the service of the Pope and European monarchs such as Louis XV, Louis XVI, Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II of Russia.
This catalogue of the first retrospective devoted to them brings together one hundred masterpieces from national and international institutions as well as from private collections, revealing several previously unpublished prestigious sculptures that bear witness to the Adam family's virtuosity at the heart of the Europe of the Enlightenment.