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Drawing, Design for a Sculpture in a Niche

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Augustin Pajou. It is dated 1780 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and ink, bursh with brown washes, graphite, black crayon on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

20.4 × 9.8 cm (8 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Signed (in ink), lower right: "Pajou/sculpteur."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Sculpture in a Niche; Designed by Augustin Pajou (1730–1809); France; pen and ink, bursh with brown washes, graphite, black crayon on paper; 20.4 × 9.8 cm (8 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-302

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