Project for a Monumental Fountain
Augustin Pajou
1767
Medium
Pen and brown and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions
15 11/16 x 24 in. (39.8 x 61 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.388
Tags
FountainsMenWomenTrees
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...