Rocky Landscape with Figures
Augustin Pajou
ca. 1752–56 · Black chalk · Drawings and Prints
This sheet was made by the French sculptor Augustin Pajou while he was a pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome between 1752 and 1756. On the recto, he sketched (or copied?) a rocky landscape with figures. On the verso, he sketched two quick designs for a cartouche with the king’s arms intended for the façade of the Palazzo Mancini in Rome, home of the French Academy. The cartouche, commissioned in 1753, was never realized.
- Artist
- Augustin Pajou
- Date
- ca. 1752–56
- Medium
- Black chalk
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of James David Draper and the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2020