Hubert Robert
by PAJOU, Augustin, Marble
Like nearly all his fellow sculptors, Pajou was also employed as a portraitist; like them he showed his most sustained ability in this category of work. He was capable of being inspired to fine effect by the right sitter. It was probably through is master Lemoyne that Pajou received the commission for a bust of Louis XV. He was to carve likenesses of both Marie Leczinska and the dauphin (a posthumous portrait), but he remained most successful in portraying those people he really knew. The bust of Hubert Robert, the painter, is the result of friendship and knowledge, as well as talent. It was shown at the Salon of 1789.