Augustin Pajou
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Augustin Pajou (September 19, 1730 - May 8, 1809) was a French sculptor, born in Paris.
At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome, and at thirty exhibited his Pluton tenant Cerbère enchaîné(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 Bernard Poyet constructed the "Fontaine des Innocents" from the earlier edifice of Pierre Lescot, Pajou provided a number of new figures for the work. Mention should also be made of his bust of Carlin Bertinazzi (1763) at the Comédie Française, and the monument to Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France (in the Salon of 1769). Pajou died in Paris on the 8th of May 1809.
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- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.fr:Augustin Pajou