You are here: Art > Biography > French

Life of AUGUSTIN PAJOU


 Advertisements

 
  French sculptor, who was a pupil of Jean-Baptist Lemoyne and studied in Rome 1752-56. He is best known for his decorative sculpture in the Opera House at Versailles (1768-70) and for his numerous portraits - Lemoyne (1758) and Buffon in the Louvre, Descartes and Bossuet in the Institut. He worked much for Mme du Barry. In 1777 he was appointed Keeper of the King s Antiquities and in 1792 he served on a Revolutionary Committee on the Conservation of Works of Art. His Psyche Abandoned (1791, Louvre) is a piece of Neoclassical sentiment.
  
 Advertisements
Psyche Abandoned
click to see full size image
See more details about "Psyche Abandoned"
Bas-relief
click to see full size image
See more details about "Bas-relief"
Bust of Madame du Barry
click to see full size image
See more details about "Bust of Madame du Barry"
Hubert Robert
click to see full size image
See more details about "Hubert Robert"
The Princess of Hesse-Homburg as Minerva
click to see full size image
See more details about "The Princess of Hesse-Homburg as Minerva"
Bas-relief
click to see full size image
See more details about "Bas-relief"

Pages :  1 

 


If you want write a review , you have to be registered. Login or Sign up / register
 Advertisements

Also see ...

PACHER, Michael

PALAGI, Pelagio

PALISSY, Bernard

PALMER, Samuel

PALMEZZANO, Marco



        


 Translation  Spanish  German  French  Italian
 painter  pintor  maler  peintre  pittore
 painting  pintura  Anstrich  peinture  pittura
 paintings  pinturas  Anstriche  peintures  pitture
 biography  biograf�a  Biographie  biographie  biografia
 gallery  galer�a  Galerie  galerie  galleria