# Augustin Pajou's contemporaries

Artist galleries · hang 750 · 8 works

A few works by Augustin Pajou, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## First room, north wall

1. [Ancient Ruins on the Bank of the Tiber](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/ancient-ruins-on-the-bank-of-the-tiber-nga-110206), Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/ancient-ruins-on-the-bank-of-the-tiber-nga-110206?hang=750)
2. [Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/lion-s-head-from-the-capitoline-staircase-nga-110205), Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/lion-s-head-from-the-capitoline-staircase-nga-110205?hang=750)

## Their contemporaries

3. [Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/alexander-at-the-tomb-of-cyrus-the-great-aic-100060), Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, 1796. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/alexander-at-the-tomb-of-cyrus-the-great-aic-100060?hang=750)
4. [Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/tomb-with-sphinxes-and-an-owl-cma-313396), Louis Jean Desprez, c. 1779–84. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/tomb-with-sphinxes-and-an-owl-cma-313396?hang=750)
5. [Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/study-of-a-seated-woman-seen-from-behind-marie-gabrielle-cap-met-383862), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1789. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/study-of-a-seated-woman-seen-from-behind-marie-gabrielle-cap-met-383862?hang=750)

## Their contemporaries, second

6. [Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/marie-emilie-coignet-de-courson-1716-1806-with-a-dog-met-436323), Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/marie-emilie-coignet-de-courson-1716-1806-with-a-dog-met-436323?hang=750)
7. [Landscape with a Fallen Tree (Paysage à l'arbre cassé)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/landscape-with-a-fallen-tree-paysage-a-l-arbre-casse-nga-204948), Hubert Robert, 1764. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/landscape-with-a-fallen-tree-paysage-a-l-arbre-casse-nga-204948?hang=750)
8. [Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/ange-laurent-de-la-live-de-jully-nga-32686), Jean Baptiste Greuze, probably 1759. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-augustin-pajou/ange-laurent-de-la-live-de-jully-nga-32686?hang=750)

## Doors

- [More French eighteenth century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/french-eighteenth-century?hang=750&via=continue) (35 works)
- [18th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-france?hang=750&via=continue) (75 works)