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Madame Vigée Le Brun

Augustin Pajou French

1783

Not on view

The distinguished sculptor Pajou sent this bust of Madame Vigée Le Brun to the Salon of 1783, the year she exhibited there for the first time. Beautiful and talented, the painter was approaching the high point of her career. Pajou’s drapery—a mass of folds marked by puckers and hollows that contrast with smoother shapes—enlivens the surface of the terracotta and sets off the painter’s face.

Madame Vigée Le Brun, Augustin Pajou (French, Paris 1730–1809 Paris), Terracotta — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Madame Vigée Le Brun

Artist: Augustin Pajou (French, Paris 1730–1809 Paris)

Date: 1783

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: Height 21 7/8 in. (55.5 cm); height with pedestal 27 3/4 in. (70.5 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Sculptures (RF 2909)

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