Prometheus Bound - detail

Prometheus Bound

Provenance: confiscated during the Revolution from the collections of the Académie

Marble

H. 1.14 m; W. 0.82 m; D. 0.48 m

 

Nicolas-Sébastien ADAM

Nancy, 1705 – Paris, 1778

Approved by the Académie Royale in 1735

Work submitted for admission to the Académie, 1762.

Prometheus, Chained to Mount Caucasus, has his Liver Devoured by an Eagle

1762

Marble

H. 1.14 m; W. 0.82 m; D. 0.48 m

 

The sculptor exhibited the plaster model of this work at the Salon of 1738. The bird is described as a vulture in the Academy's records and in the Salon catalogue, but is actually carved like an eagle. Adam followed the text by Greek poet Hesiod, in which an eagle sent by Jupiter pecks at Prometheus's liver to punish him for giving fire to mankind.

Department of Sculptures

 

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