Augustin Pajou

Portrait of Pajou by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.[1]
Bust of Michel-Jean Sedaine, 1775, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Mercury, 1780.

Augustin Pajou (French pronunciation: [oɡystɛ̃ paʒu]; 19 September 1730 – 8 May 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).

  1. ^ Pajou sculpted the father of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Claude Edme Labille, in 1784; the marble bust was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1785, and is now in the Louvre (N 15487).