Design for a Monumental Vase by Augustin Pajou
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Design for a Monumental Vase

Augustin Pajou · 1778

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. (P.?) Pradeau, Paris [invoice in curatorial file]; sold, Paris, January 23-24, 1882, lot 234 [invoice]. Hippolyte Destailleur (died 1893), Paris [Lugt 1300]. Germain Seligman, New York [stamp; not in Lugt]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 64, cat. 56 (ill.).
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Augustin Pajou," February 23-May 24, 1998.

Literature

Published references

  • Henri Stein, Augustin Pajou (Paris, 1912), pp. 228 and 409.
  • P. Proute, Dessins-Estampes (1963), p. 15, no. 32.
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 2D4.

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