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Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (27 August 1766, Paris - 28 November 1828, Paris) was a French painter in the Classical style.
Musée Magnin de Dijon
La Tribune de l'art, acquisition du tableau '' Portrait de famille''
Brief biography
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Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (27 August 1766, Paris - 28 November 1828, Paris) was a French painter in the Classical style.
Biography
His father was the sculptor,Augustin Pajou
Augustin Pajou (19 September 1730 – 8 May 1809) was a French sculptor, born in Paris. At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome, and at thirty exhibited his ''Pluton tenant Cerbère enchaîné'' (now in the Louvre).
Selected works
Pajou's portrait ...
. Nothing is known of his childhood. In 1784, at the age of eighteen, he became a student at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...
. Four attempts to win the Prix de Rome were unsuccessful.
In 1792, he became a member of the Compagnie des arts de Paris {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
The Compagnie des arts de Paris was a military unit of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was formed on 6 September 1792 in the Louvre section and was made up of students of Letters and Sciences, ...
, organized by the Louvre, alongside the painter Louis-François Lejeune as well as the future economist, Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (; 5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for Say's law—also known as the law of ...
. While stationed with the regular army in Sedan, he wrote numerous letters to his friend, François Gérard. which express his initial enthusiasm, but gradually turn to boredom, disillusionment and physical exhaustion.
After being demobilized, he participated in creating the "Commune générale des arts", an institution designed to replace the Académie Royale. He served as Secretary for the Commune's President, Joseph-Marie Vien. In 1795, he married Marie-Marguerite Thibault (1764-1827). Under the First Empire, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Maréchal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, which may still be seen at Versailles. In 1812, he was awarded a gold medal for his depiction of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
offering clemency to the Royalists who had taken refuge in Spain.
In 1811, at the urging of François-Guillaume Ménageot, who had become apprised of the precarious financial situation facing the sculptor David d'Angers, Pajou wrote a letter to the mayor of Angers, demanding that material aid be given to the sculptor. The aid was granted and was considered a lifesaver for d'Angers, who went on to win the Prix de Rome for sculpture and spend several years at the French Academy in Rome. In 1814, he painted three tableaux celebrating the Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
. They were displayed at the Salon
Salon may refer to:
Common meanings
* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
Arts and entertainment
* Salon (P ...
and it is possible they were seen by Napoleon.
He resigned from most of the associations of which he was a member in 1823, citing poor health. In a letter from that period, he says that he was "cruelly tormented for a year by a continual tremor." He died in 1828 and was interred at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
His son, also became a well-known painter.
Sources
* Baron Gérard, ''Lettres autographes adressées au baron François Gérard publiées par le baron Gérard, son neveu'', Paris, 1883 * Philippe Nusbaumer, ''Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou, peintre d'histoire et de portraits'', Le Pecq-sur-Seine, 1997 * Philippe Nusbaumer, "Le Peintre Jacques Pajou, fils du sculpteur. De la difficulté de se faire un prénom", in: ''Augustin Pajou et ses contemporains'', La Documentation française, 1999External links
Musée Magnin de Dijon
La Tribune de l'art, acquisition du tableau '' Portrait de famille''
Brief biography
@ the Oxford Index {{DEFAULTSORT:Pajou, Jacques Augustin Catherine 1766 births 1828 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists