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Madame Vigée Le Brun

1783
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
The distinguished sculptor Pajou sent this bust of Madame Vigée Le Brun to the Salon of 1783, the year she exhibited there for the first time. Beautiful and talented, the painter was approaching the high point of her career. Pajou’s drapery—a mass of folds marked by puckers and hollows that contrast with smoother shapes—enlivens the surface of the terracotta and sets off the painter’s face.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Madame Vigée Le Brun
  • Artist: Augustin Pajou (French, Paris 1730–1809 Paris)
  • Date: 1783
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Dimensions: Height 21 7/8 in. (55.5 cm); height with pedestal 27 3/4 in. (70.5 cm)
  • Classification: Sculpture
  • Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Sculptures (RF 2909)
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings