Special envoy to Nancy and Lunéville
An undulating breastplate, a cascading curly wig, a body that seems to dance: the terracotta statuette which opens like a figurehead the exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy seems to represent a hero theatre. It is Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, whose possessions Louis XIV annexed; this “duke without a duchy”, modeled by the sculptor Jacob Sigisbert Adam, competes in elegance and nobility with the King of France. The work, devilish rockery, sets the tone: everything is seductive in the rooms that follow, with these faces of the four elements, a blowing Borée, the exasperated air of being of marble, a Louis XV with a bubbling mantle, shown in Apollo crowned with laurels. Adam, born in Nancy in 1670, could match Bernini in fantasy and virtuosity.
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