AFTER AUGUSTIN PAJOU (FRENCH, 1730-1809): A LARGE MID 19TH CENTURY FRENCH SEVRES STYLE BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF MADAME DU BARRY her hair in an elaborate coiffure, her drapery falling around her shoulders and her head turned to sinister, raised on a waisted square socle, inscribed to the reverse 'd'apres Pajou', numbered to the underneath 5601,  62cm high Madame du Barry was the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France, he built the Château de Louveciennes for her and she retired there after his death in 1774. She met her death on the guillotine during the French revolution in 1793. Pajou was known to be her favourite sculptor and he made five portraits of her, each with a different hair style. The present bust is a copy of the most famous example which Pajou exhibited at the Salon 1773 and is now in the Louvre.