Pajou, Augustin (1730 Paris - 1809 ibid.) after

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Bronze, reduced version of the original portrait bust of Madame du Barry, the mistress of the French King Louis XV, on a stepped base made of light-colored stone with dark grain, dated "1840" on the underside by a hand other than the artist, H bust approx. 6 cm, total H about 14 cm; Neoclassical sculptor, student of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, a life-size marble version of this bust is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris