Copy after an Ancient Sarcophagus
Augustin Pajou
ca. 1752–56
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (19 × 13.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of James David Draper, 2019
Accession Number
2021.15.16
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...