Augustin Pajou

The present work is a fine and beautifully preserved example of Pajou's highly finished drawings in red chalk.

The artist approached the subject of the Medici Thusnelda on at least one other occasion, in a drawing executed in pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash previously in the Horvitz collection, prior to being gifted to the Harvard Art Museums in 1999.¹

1. A.L. Clark, Jr. et al, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., The Horvitz Collection 2017, p. 518, no.1