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Jean-Antoine Houdon

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Houdon's portrait sculpture of Washington was the result of a specific invitation by Benjamin Franklin to cross the Atlantic in 1785, specifically to visit
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On 1 July 1786, he married Marie-Ange-Cecile Langlois; they had three daughters: Sabine, Anne-Ange, and Claudine.
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Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the
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Perceived as bourgeois for his connections to the court of Louis XVI, he fell out of favour during the
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Memoirs of the Life and Works of Jean Antoine Houdon: The Sculptor of Voltaire and of Washington
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to the Salon of 1771. He developed his practise of portrait busts. He became a member of the
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Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de SĂ©rilly, Comtesse de Pange (1780),
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of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which depict Washington in profile.
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in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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Houdon's sculptures were used as models for the engravings used on
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Marshall, Bill; Kaufman, Will; Johnston, Cristina, eds. (2005),
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Houdon died in Paris on 15 July 1828, and was interred at the
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in 1809, which was made hereditary by letters patent in 1816.
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In the 1780s, Houdon produced two semi-nude sculptures,
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in 1761, but was not greatly influenced by ancient and
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in 1771, and a professor in 1778. In 1778, he modeled
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Rembrandt Peale
Versailles
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Prix de Rome
[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃twanudɔ̃]
neoclassical sculptor
Enlightenment
Denis Diderot
Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
MoliĂšre
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Louis XVI
Robert Fulton
Napoléon Bonaparte

Louis-LĂ©opold Boilly
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Versailles
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
René-Michel Slodtz
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
École royale des Ă©lĂšves protĂ©gĂ©s
Prix de Rome
Renaissance art
Rome

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