Currently not on view
Medallion with the Holy Family,
1752–56
Augustin Pajou, French, 1730–1809
x1948-438
Information
Title
Medallion with the Holy Family
Dates
1752–56
Maker
Medium
Black chalk and brown wash
Dimensions
23.4 x 18.2 cm. (9 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-438
Inscription
in brown ink, lower center: par Pajou statuaire [in artist's hand]
in graphite, verso lower right: 7351 [in circle]
in graphite, verso lower center: Pajou 32 2-2-0 sepia + wash [in Platt hand]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in brown, verso lower left: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Possibly from one of three albums of Pajou drawings that remained in possession of his son Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (1766–1828); purchased, probably in London, in 1925 by Dan Fellows Platt, stamp (L. 750a), verso, lower left, in brown.
- Pierre Rosenberg, French master drawings of the 17th & 18th centuries in North American collections, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1972)., cat. no. 92 (illus.)
- "Sixteenth-to eighteenth-century French drawings from the permanent collection: a checklist of the exhibition," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 43-49., p. 49
