Jean-Antoine Houdon

English: Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 – July 15, 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 include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785-88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803-04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).

Portraits of Houdon

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  Jean Antoine Houdon, 1808, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Musée des Arts décoratifs
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  Louis-Léopold Boilly, Q103888021, 1804, Musée des Arts décoratifs
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  Tony Noël, 1891, Monument to Jean-Antoine Houdon, Versailles
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  Madame Houdon, 1787, Louvre Museum
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  Sabine Houdon, 1791, Louvre Museum

Works

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  Voltaire, 1778, National Gallery of Art
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  Bust of Charles Palissot de Montenoy, 1779
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  Buste de fr:Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini vers 1780
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  Portrait of Voltaire, Seated, 1781
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  Diana. Bronze, 1790
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  Diana, detail
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  de:Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville, Comtesse de Sabran
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  Porträtbüste de:Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff, Paris 1791
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  Robert Fulton, 1803, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Dr. Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, Paris 1806
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  Le baiser donné copy after Houdon
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