About the Artwork
Bust of a Young Woman
1791
Augustin Pajou
1730-1809
French
Unknown
Terracotta
Overall: 30 × 19 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (76.2 × 49.5 × 27 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
70.611
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated on back of left shoulder: Paj...191 (Pajou 1791?).
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Provenance
Marquis de Biron (Biron, France)
Comte de Loriol, (Geneva, Switzerland)
(Galerie Heim, Paris, France)
1970-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 1, Annual Report 1971, p. 16 (ino article, back cover illustration only).
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Augustin Pajou, Bust of a Young Woman, 1791, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 70.611.
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