Currently not on view
Seated beggar and head of a soldier,
1752–56
Augustin Pajou, French, 1730–1809
x1948-444
Information
Title
Seated beggar and head of a soldier
Dates
1752–56
Maker
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
18 x 12.4 cm. (7 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-444
Signatures
Signed in brown ink, lower right: A. Pajou
Inscription
In ink, center: pres du palais justiniane [in artist's hand]
In graphite, verso, lower left: E-6 [with X above in red pencil] | Pajou 12 £ 1-8 [in Platt hand]
In graphite, verso, lower right: 7386 [in circle]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, verso, lower left: [circle with initials D.F.P.] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
Type
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 black.
- Michel N. Benisovich, "Drawings by Sculptor Augustin Pajou in the Art Museum," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 14, no. 1 (1955): 9–16., p. 11, fig. 4; p. 15
- "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. 45
