# Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase, in Augustin Pajou's contemporaries

Augustin Pajou drew this in 1752/1756, aged about 22. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: 1752/1756
- Medium: black chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions: overall: 18 x 12.3 cm (7 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.75.5.a
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Augustin Pajou](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/augustin-pajou), French, 1730–1809

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [A contemporary: Jean Honoré Fragonard](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/jean-honore-fragonard?hang=749) (6 works)
- [More French eighteenth century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/french-eighteenth-century?hang=749) (35 works)
- [18th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-france?hang=749) (75 works)

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