PAJOU, AUGUSTIN

ōgüstăNˈ päzhooˈ, 1730–1809, French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome at the age of 18 and began a long career of royal commissions. He is noted for the elegance of his decorative work, particularly of the Opéra, Versailles (1768–70). His best works are his portrait busts, among which are those of Pascal; Descartes (Institut, Paris); and Buffon and Mme Du Barry (both: Louvre).

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The Rococo Age: Art and Civilization of the 18th Century
Book by Arno Schönberger, Halldor Soehner; McGraw-Hill, 1960
Subjects: Art, Rococo, Eighteenth Century, Europe--Civilization
...Stockholm , Nationalmuseum Pl. 39 PAJOU, AUGUSTIN Paris 1730-1809. Awarded the...in Montpellier from 1792 to 1794. Pajou received important commissions for...which was commissioned 1773 from Pajou by Comte dAngiviller finished in...
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Classical Myths in Sculpture
Book by Walter Raymond Agard; University of Wisconsin Press, 1951
Subjects: Mythology, Sculpture
...61 Nicolini, Giovanni, 183 Niehaus, Charles H., 182 . OLLIVIER, Augustin, 105 Orlowski, A., 115 Ortiz-Monasterio, Luis, 167 PAEONIUS, 38 , 125 Pajou, Augustin, 180 Palmer, Erastus D., 137 , 138 Pedoni, Giovanni, 72 . Fig...
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Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire
Book by Edgar Leon Newman, Robert Lawrence Simpson; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: France--History--Louis Philip, 1830-1848--Dictionaries, France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830--Dictionaries, France--History--Second Republic, 1848-1852--Dictionaries
...Pagello, Pietro, 956 Pagnerre, L.-A., 57 Pagny Meurthe , 970 Paix, La , 1083 Paix des deux mondes, La , 754 Pajou, Augustin, 123 Palais Bourbon, 306, see also Chamber of Deputies Palaiseau, 957 Palais-Royal, 648-49, see also Louis...
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Companion to Baroque Music
Book by Julie Anne Sadie; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Music--17th Century--History And Criticism, Music--18th Century--History And Criticism
...Noel 38 Pagliardi, Giovanni Maria 30 , 47 Paisible, James 275 , 299 -300, 307 Paisiello, Giovanni 30 , 72 , 500 Pajou, Augustin 143 Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de 347 Palantrotti, Melchior 356 Palatinate, see Palatine courts of Diisseldorf...
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Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century: From the Collection of the Cooper Union Museum
Book by Richard P. Wunder; Lambert-Spector, 1962
Subjects: Drawing, European, Drawing--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs
...Nicola 43 NATALI, Giovanni Battista, the third 20 OPPENORD, Gilles-Marie 24 , 62 , 70 OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste 53 PAJOU, Augustin 10 PANINI, Giovanni Paolo 7 PARODI, Filippo 28 PERACINO, Lorenzo 38 PIERRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie 42 PILLEMENT...
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The Image of Ganymede in France, 1730-1820: the Survival of a Homoerotic Myth
Journal article by Michael Preston Worley; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history, Mythology, Sculpture
...late as the First Empire. The example in question was Augustin Pajous Psyche abandonnie (plaster, Salon of 1785...London, 1787-90, XVIII, 367; and H. Stein, Augustin Pajou, Paris, 1912, 253. 92. DAngiviller realized that...
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Fragonard's Later Career: the Contes et Nouvelles and the Progress of Love Revisited
Journal article by Anne L. Schroder; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 93, 2011
Subjects: Art, Artists, Museum exhibits, Museums, Painting, Patronage
...Jean-Baptiste Tilliard and Augustin de Saint-Aubin.30 The timing...love over time. For example, Augustin Pajon, Fragonards friend and...Mediterranean Sea can be seen. In 1783 Pajou had created a celebrated terra...for Didot. Gerard, like Pajou, portraved Psyche nude but...


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Pajou, Augustin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAJOU, AUGUSTIN ogustaN pazhoo , 1730 1809, French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome at the age of 18 and began a long career of royal commissions...


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