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Jean-Antoine Houdon

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828) was active/lived in France.  Jean Antoine Houdon is known for Neo-classical portrait bust and statue sculpture.

Prominent in France during the Enlightenment period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Jean-Antoine Houdon was a neo-classical sculptor, especially noted for his marble portrait busts and statues.   His subjects included Americans Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Fulton, and among his French subjects were Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XVI and Napoléon Bonaparte. 

For King Louis, he did numerous statues for the gardens of Versailles.  Houdon was a continuous exhibitor at the French Salon, and works included many of the above mentioned personages as well as Prince Henry of Prussia, Catharine of Russia, Voltaire, the playwright Moliere and Marshal de Tourville.
Houdon was born in Versailles in 1714.  His artistic talent was apparent from the time he was young, and at age 12, he enrolled in the Ecole Royale de Sculpture where he was a student of sculptor Michel Ange Slodtz (1705-176   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3914 characters.]  Artist bio

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