Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love
1799
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 8 in. (39.4 x 19.1 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan and Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1986
Accession Number
1986.282
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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...