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Jean-Antoine Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; 20 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.
Jean Antoine Houdon, the preeminent sculptor of the French Enlightenment, was primarily known for his portraiture, a specialization that brought him fame among his contemporaries and posterity alike, despite a lack of parallel achievement on the more monumental scale.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (born March 20, 1741, Versailles, France—died July 15, 1828, Paris) was a French sculptor whose religious and mythological works are definitive expressions of the 18th-century Rococo style of sculpture.
Jean-Antoine Houdon. French Sculptor. Born: March 20, 1741 - Versailles, France. Died: July 15, 1828 - Paris, France. Movements and Styles: Neoclassicism. , Naturalism. "I can say that I devoted myself to only two types of study that filled my entire life, and to which I sacrificed all that I earned...anatomy and the casting of statues." 1 of 5.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃n‿ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]) (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.
Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French sculptor known for his fresh and lively portrayals of such eighteenth-century American luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
Jean Antoine Houdon French. 1778. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 717. Houdon's bust of Franklin was the first of his canonical portraits of leading figures in American history, among them Washington, Jefferson, John Paul Jones, the Marquis de Lafayette and Robert Fulton (1989.329).
