Boy with a Lobster
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Not on view at present
Where is “Boy with a Lobster” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
A plaster model for a figure of this description was shown by Adam, the elder of sculptor brothers, in the 1740 Salon in Paris, and the following year a plaster model of a companion piece with a small girl and a bird was shown by him. Both of these models, of 1740 and 1741, were intended at the time to be cast in bronze for an indoor fountain. Adam excelled in decorative sculpture and one of his greatest works was a huge group of Neptune and Amphrite, amongst a swirling group of assorted sea creatures, completed in 1740, for the garden at Versailles.
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A marble of this description ('a small child, in marble, sitting on a shell, playing with a lobster which is biting him'), signed and dated 'Lam. Sigisbert Adam, inv. et fac. 1750' was exhibited in the Salon of 1750. This was made for the Comte d'Argenson. It was later in the gardens of Bagatelle. A number of later casts of this model survive, and examination of this bronze suggests that it is a nineteenth century cast.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
- Accession number
- A.18-1960
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
