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    Augustin Pajou (French pronunciation: [oɡystɛ̃ paʒu]; 19 September 1730 – 8 May 1809) was a French sculptor, born in Paris. At eighteen he won the Prix...
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    Palais-Royal (French: [pa.lɛ ʁwa.jal]) is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court...
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    pedestal decorated with four lions and four basins. The sculptor Augustin Pajou was commissioned to create a fourth façade for the fountain, in the same...
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    Diocletian. In Rome, de Wailly founded a friendship with the sculptor Augustin Pajou, who was to carve his bust and that of his wife and for whom, in 1776, he...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art Mercury by Augustin Pajou (1780), Louvre Bust of Madame Vigée Le Brun by Augustin Pajou (1785), Louvre The effects on Neoclassicism...
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    built by Charles de Wailly for the sculptor Augustin Pajou, at 87 rue de la Pépinière, now the rue La Boétie, Rome and Venice. Upon his father's death...
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    squid, nine meters long, in the Gallery of Evolution Statue of Buffon by Pajou The National Museum of Natural History has been called "the Louvre of the...
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    from 1648 to 1653, André Charles Boulle, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Augustin Pajou, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Horace...
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    d'Art Moderne de Paris Neoclassicism – Mercury or The Trade, by Augustin Pajou (1780), marble, Louvre, Paris Neoclassical influences – Prometheus, a stylised...
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    Buffon's cerebellum remains, as it is kept in the base of the statue by Pajou that Louis XVI had commissioned in his honor in 1776, located at the Museum...
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    royal coat of arms supported by two winged genies, by sculptor Augustin Pajou. The design of the Cour du Mai, including that of the iron fence, was by...
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  • de Saxe. The sculptors Félix Lecomte, Louis-Philippe Mouchy and Augustin Pajou were commissioned to make statues of the Grand Condé, Maréchal de Luxembourg...
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    favor of Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793), 17 July 1789. He remains in 1786 Rue Neuve des Capucines. After returning emigration from England, he is locked...
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    93 cm; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Mercury or The Trade; by Augustin Pajou; 1780; marble; height: 196 cm; Louvre The Winter; by Jean-Antoine Houdon;...
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    illustrious artists, by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. The sculptor Augustin Pajou added statuary and reliefs to complete the decoration. The new Opera was...
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    Pascal studying the cycloid, by Augustin Pajou, 1785, Louvre...
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    ordinary boxes, had a grill to protect their privacy. Sculptures by Augustin Pajou and a painted ceiling by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau completed the interior...
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  • scholarship from the Prince of Monaco to study in Paris, under Augustin Pajou. During the Empire of Napoleon, he sculpted some of the plaques on the column...
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  • Edmond Pillon Watteau et son école 500 Francs 1913 Henri Stein [fr] Augustin Pajou 500 Francs 1912 Auguste Boppe [fr] Les peintres du Bosphore au XVIIIe siècle...
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    the sculpture gallery in his Paris residence, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, as a pair to Augustin Pajou's Mercury, or Commerce. Michael Levey suggests that...
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