PAJOU, Augustin
(b. 1730, Paris, d. 1809, Paris)

Madame de Wailly

1789
Marble, height 63 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The sitter of this bust was Adelaide-Flore Belleville (1765-1838) who in 1781 married Charles de Wailly. The pendant of the bust is the bust of her fifty-nine-year-old husband, which is known only in plaster versions,