Jacques-Augustin Pajou

{"Id":2670,"Name":"Jacques-Augustin Pajou","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EPAJOU, AUGUSTIN (1730-1809)\u003C/strong\u003E, French sculptor, was born in Paris on the 19th of September 1730. At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome; at thirty he exhibited his \u003Cu\u003EPluton tenant Cerbere enchaint\u003C/u\u003E (now in the Louvre). His portrait busts of Buffon and of Madame Du Barry (1773), and his statuette of Bossuet (all in the Louvre), are amongst his best works. When B. Poyet constructed the Fontaine des Innocents from the earlier edifice of P. Lescot (see \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/goujon_jean.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGOUJON\u003C/a\u003E) Pajou provided a number of new figures for the work. Mention should also be made of his bust of Carlin Bertinazzi (1763) at the Comedie Franchise, and the monument of Marie Leczinska, queen of Poland (in the Salon of 1769). Pajou died in Paris on the 8th of May 1809.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://90.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PA/PAJOU_AUGUSTIN.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":22}