Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (1766 – 1828)

• Was a French painter.
• He was born in Paris.

• His father was the sculptor, Augustin Pajou.

• In 1784, at the age of eighteen, he became a student at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

• In 1792, he became a member of the Compagnie des arts de Paris, organized by the Louvre, alongside the painter Louis-François Lejeune.
• He served as Secretary for the Commune's President, Joseph-Marie Vien.

• In 1795, he married Marie-Marguerite Thibault.

• Under the First Empire, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Maréchal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, which may still be seen at Versailles.
• In 1812, he was awarded a gold medal for his depiction of Napoleon offering clemency to the Royalists who had taken refuge in Spain. 

• In 1814, he painted three tableaux celebrating the Bourbon Restoration.

• He resigned from most of the associations of which he was a member in 1823, citing poor health.
• In a letter from that period, he says that he was "cruelly tormented for a year by a continual tremor."
• He died in Paris in 1828 and was interred at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. 

• His son, Augustin-Désiré Pajou also became a well-known painter.

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