Pyrrhus in the House of Glaucias
Augustin Pajou
ca. 1752–56
Medium
Black chalk, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash on two joined sheets
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 5/16 × 31 5/16 in. (56.7 × 79.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.439
Tags
KingsInfantsMenWomen
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...