Aeneas Fleeing with Anchises from the Ruins of Troy
Augustin Pajou
1777
Medium
Red chalk, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions
32.1 × 43.4 cm (12 11/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53169
About the Artist
Augustin Pajou · 1730–1809
Augustin Pajou (1730–1809) was one of the foremost French sculptors of the second half of the eighteenth century, whose long and distinguished career bridged the Rococo grace of the Ancien Régime and the more sober classicizing spirit that emerged in the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Born in Paris into a family with artistic connections — his father was an ornamental sculptor — Pajou showe...