Lot Essay
This graceful terracotta group is a reduced version of the model exhibited by Pajou in the Salon of 1765, commissioned by the Marquis de Voyer d'Argenson. Another example, dated 1774 as with the present terracotta, is in the Louvre (see J.-R. Gaborit, ed., Sculpture Française II - Renaissance et temps modernes, II, Paris, 1998, no. RF 3025, p. 514).