Augustin Pajou

Augustin Pajou (September 19th 1730 - May 8th 1809) is a neo-classic sculptor French, known for its portraits of celebrities and its naked.

Biography

Wire of a sculptor-carpenter, it grows in Paris, in the Faubourg Saint-Anthony. Raise of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704-1778), it gains at the 18 years age the Prix of Rome. It gains the first price of sculpture to the Royal Académie of Painting and Sculpture of Paris.

The king offers his financial aid to him when he studies with the Académie from France to Rome.

He had two children: Flora Catherine Pajou, which married the sculptor Clodion, and Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou (1766-1828) which was painter of history and portraits.

Pajou was the Master of the sculptors Philippe-Laurent Roland, Jacques-Edme Dumont, David of Angers.

Pajou was Franc-maçon, it belonged to the cabin of the Last nine Sisters.

Works

In Paris

With the museum of Louvre

Prone mythological

Pluto connecting Cerberus , group, marble (1760)
Mercury or the Trade , statue, marble (1780) to see abandoned photography
Psyché , statue, marble (1790)
ARIANE abandoned , statuette, terra cotta (1796)
River , statuette, terra cotta (1762)
Anacréon tearing off a feather with the wings of the Love , group, terra cotta (about 1750)
Bacchante with the drum of Basque with two children , group, stone (1774)
Cérès , statuette, marble
Diogène seeking the man , relief, terra cotta (1781)
the Earth or Triumph of Cybèle , relief, painted plaster (1765 - 1770): from the living room of the hotel of Voyer d' Argenson
the Air or Borée comes removing Orythie , relief, painted plaster (1765 - 1770): from the living room of the hotel of Voyer d' Argenson
Fire or Pluton removing comes Proserpine , relief, painted plaster (1765 - 1770): from the living room of the hotel of Voyer d' Argenson
Water or Neptune protecting comes Amymone , relief, painted plaster (1765 - 1770): comes from the living room of the hotel of Voyer d' Argenson

Personalities

Blaise Pascal , statue, marble (1785) series “the great men of France”
Buffon , statue, marble (about 1788)
Carried Madam of Barry , bust, marble (1773)
Allégorie with the queen Marie Leszczynska , group, marble (before 1771)
Portrait of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , bust, terra cotta (1783)
Portrait of Natalie de Laborde , bust, terra cotta (1789)
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne , bust, bronzes (after 1778)
Portrait of Pierre-François Bassan , bust, terra cotta (1768)
Bossuet , statuette, terra cotta (1779)
Projet of monument , relief, terra cotta
Projet of monument , relief, terra cotta (1785)

Others

Portrait of Carlin Bertinazzi , (1763), bust, Comédie-Française
Monument with Marie Leszczyńska , (Living room of 1769)
Women and children with an escutcheon with ducal crown (1765), Trophies of weapons , pediment of the frontage of the Palais Royal, side of the place of the Palais Royal
part of the fountain of Innocent the
Decoration of the Opera of the Castle of Versailles

In Province

Portrait of Hubert Robert , (1787), bust, terra cotta, Valence, museum of the Art schools

Abroad

Portrait of Madam de Wailly , bust, New York, Metropolitan Museum off Art
ideal Heads of woman (1769 - 1770), busts, terra cotta on white marble bases, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
Bellone , statue size half-nature, marble, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
Calliope (about 1763), Washington D.C, National Gallery off Art
Portrait of woman (1774), bust, Boston, museum of the Art schools
Portrait of Mrs Sedaine (1781), bust, Boston, museum of the Art schools
the Princess of Hesse-Homburg , low-relief, Saint-Pétersbourg, Museum of the Hermitage

See too

Philippe-Laurent Roland, Portrait of Augustin Pajou , bust, terra cotta (1797), Paris, museum of Louvre

Sources

Catalog of exposure by James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf, Pajou. Sculptor of the King 1730 - 1809 , Paris, museum of Louvre, October 20th, 1997 - January 19th, 1998, New York, The Metropolitan Museum off Art, February 26th - May 24th, 1998, Editions of the Meeting of the national museums, Paris, 1997.

External bonds

Biography of Pajou on the site of Getty Museum

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