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AUGUSTIN PAJOU (173o—18o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTIN

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PAJOU (173o—18o9)  ,
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French sculptor, was
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born in
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Paris on the ,9th of
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September 1730 . At eighteen he won the Prix de
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Rome; at
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thirty he exhibited his Pluton
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tenant Cerbere enchdine (now in the Louvre) . His portrait busts of
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Buffon and of Madame Du
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Barry (1773), and his statuette of
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Bossuet (all in the Louvre), are amongst his best
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works . When B .
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Poyet constructed the
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Fontaine
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des Innocents from the earlier edifice of P . Lescot (see
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GoujoN)
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Pajou provided a number of new figures for the
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work . Mention should also be made of his bust of Carlin Bertinazzi (1763) at the Comedie Francaise, and the
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monument of
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Marie Leczinska,
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queen of
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Poland (in the
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Salon of 1769) . Pajou died in Paris on the 8th of May 1809 .

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