Jean-Antoine Houdon
1741
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1828
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: portrait
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
occupation: sculptor, medalist, visual artist
award received: Prix de Rome, Knight of the Legion of Honour
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. 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). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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