The Borghese Cybele

1752/1756

Augustin Pajou

Artist, French, 1730 - 1809

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.6 x 11.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.75.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: Villa Borghese, Rome; in later hand, upper left verso in pencil: III 35 / H 6.186 / L0.114

Watermarks

unidentified fragment

Wikidata ID

Q64536972


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