Artworks · Augustin Pajou

Pierre François Basan (1723–1797)

1900 · Terracotta

Height (with socle): 29 in. (73.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pedestal

1800 · Marble

Overall (wt. confirmed): 48 1/4 × 17 × 17 × 11 3/4 in., 623lb. (122.6 × 43.2 × 43.2 × 29.8 cm, 282.5909kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Torchère figure (one of a pair)

1800 · Plaster, carved and gilded wood

Overall (wt. confirmed): H. 67 in., Wt. 179lb. (170.2 cm, 81.1939kg);

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bacchante

1800 · Terracotta

Height: 23 7/8 in. (60.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Torchère figure (one of a pair)

1800 · Plaster, carved and gilded wood

H. 67 in. (170.2 cm.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love

1799 · Terracotta

15 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 8 in. (39.4 x 19.1 x 20.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville (1765–1838)

1789 · Bust: marble; base: grey marble

Overall, without base (confirmed): H. 24 5/8 x W. 19 7/8 x D. 10 3/4 in. (62.5 x 50.5 x 27.3 cm);

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Sculpture in a Niche

1780 · drawing — pen and ink, bursh with brown washes, graphite, black crayon on paper

20.4 × 9.8 cm (8 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for a Monumental Vase

1778 · Pen, brush and brown and black ink, brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

32.8 × 19.8 cm (12 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Aeneas Fleeing with Anchises from the Ruins of Troy

1777 · Red chalk, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

32.1 × 43.4 cm (12 11/16 × 17 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Muse Terpsichore

1768 · red chalk on laid paper

overall: 30 x 20.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Head of a Bearded Elder

1768 · Terracotta on a bleu turquin marble socle

without socle, confirmed: 14 1/4 × 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (36.2 × 30.8 × 24.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Project for a Monumental Fountain

1767 · Pen and brown and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash

15 11/16 x 24 in. (39.8 x 61 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Calliope

1763 · marble

overall: 158 x 60.8 x 46.1 cm (62 3/16 x 23 15/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ceres

1763 · Buff terracotta with reddish patination

Overall: 24 5/8 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (62.5 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle

1761 · Black chalk, pen and black ink, point of brush and brown-black ink; gray and brown wash, red watercolor, white gouache on yellow-brown wove paper

90 x 56.9 cm (35 7/16 x 22 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Ripetta in Rome [verso]

1752 · pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 12.4 x 18 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ancient Ruins on the Bank of the Tiber

1752 · pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 18 x 12.3 cm (7 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase

1752 · black chalk on laid paper

overall: 18 x 12.3 cm (7 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Borghese Cybele

1752 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 18.6 x 11.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

One of Niobe's Daughters

1752 · black chalk on laid paper

sheet: 17.8 × 13.3 cm (7 × 5 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Ludovisi Menander

1752 · pen and black ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 26.5 x 19.4 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Ludovisi Water Carrier

1752 · black chalk with gray wash on laid paper

overall: 19 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Rocky Landscape with Figures

1747 · Black chalk

Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (13 × 18.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy after an Ancient Sarcophagus

1747 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk

Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (19 × 13.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Roman Soldiers

1747 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (18.7 × 13.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Striding Roman Soldier

1747 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/16 in. (18.7 × 13.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pyrrhus in the House of Glaucias

1747 · Black chalk, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash on two joined sheets

Sheet: 22 5/16 × 31 5/16 in. (56.7 × 79.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Vase and Supporting Console

1745 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache

12 7/16 x 7 1/8 in. (31.6 x 18.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Le Grand Pénitencier

1740 · Black chalk, pen and gray wash

4 13/16 x 7 in. (12.2 x 17.8 cm.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art