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PAJOU, AUGUSTIN (173o18o9)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 521 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PAJOU, AUGUSTIN (173o18o9) ,
French
  sculptor, was
born
  in Paris on the ,9th of September 1730. At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome; at thirty he exhibited his Pluton
tenant
  Cerbere enchdine (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
GoujoN
 )
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 Francaise, and the
monument
  of
Marie
  Leczinska, queen of Poland (in the Salon of 1769).
Pajou
  died in Paris on the 8th of May 1809.


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