Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou
Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (* 1766 in Paris; † 1828 there ) was a French painter. His work can be assigned to classicism .
Life
Pajou's father was the sculptor Augustin Pajou , and through the marriage of his sister Catherine-Flore, he was related by marriage to the sculptor Claude Michel, known as Clodion. The painter Augustin-Désiré Pajou (1800-1878) emerged from Pajou's connection with Marie-Marguerite Thibault (1764–1827, marriage 1795).
In 1784 Pajou entered the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . During the revolution in 1792/93 he volunteered in the Compagnie des arts de Paris, a military unit that consisted mostly of students of law and fine arts. After its dissolution, he helped set up the Commune générale des arts.
During the Empire , Pajou created several portraits of important personalities of the time, such as a portrait of General Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1808) and the "Mildness of Napoléon against Fraulein de Saint-Simon" (1812), for which he received a gold medal. In 1814 he celebrated the return of the Bourbons in an allegorical cycle of pictures.
Pajou died in 1828 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pajou, Jacques-Augustin-Catherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pajou, Jacques Augustin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1828 |
| Place of death | Paris |