Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Jean-Antoine Houdon | |
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1808 portrait by Rembrandt Peale | |
| Born | 20 March 1741 Versailles, France |
| Died | 15 July 1828 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture |
| Known for | Portrait sculpture |
| Spouse | Marie-Ange-Cecile Langlois |
| Awards | Prix de Rome |
Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects included Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-1809), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–1788), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton (1803–04), and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).
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