Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828

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Dates

Existence: 1741 - 1818
Existence: 1741 - 1828

Biography

Jean-Antoine Houdon (25 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. 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).

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Jean Antoine Houdon letter

Collection

Identifier: Mss 785579

Mss 785579

Date(s): 1785-10-29

Abstract

In English.