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...
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French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon from the late 18th century. Based on a life mask and other measurements of George Washington taken by Houdon, it is considered...
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George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), United States Capitol rotunda Copy (1932) after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), George Washington...
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Winter (sculpture) (redirect from Winter (Jean-Antoine Houdon))
a young woman cast by 18th century neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1787. Houdon intended the statue to be an allegory of the winter season...
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(bust by Houdon) is a public artwork that is a limited edition copy of an original work by French neoclassical sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon that is on...
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l’art Archived 6 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Musée Jean de la Fontaine Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment, University of Chicago,...
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the well-known sculpture of Washington (1786) by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon; the artist was not restricted as to the reverse design. By law,...
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renowned sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Several engravers of presidential portraits on U.S. postage have modeled their engravings after Houdon's sculptures....
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vegetarianism Jean-Antoine Gros (1740–1790), French painter Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), French neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720–1814)...
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Treasure": Stuart admired the sculpture of Washington by French artist Jean-Antoine Houdon, probably because it was based on a life mask and therefore extremely...
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of the room. Busts of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon fill the niches. Above the mantel hangs a painting titled The Signing...
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automobile. A fasces appears on the statue of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon that is now in the Virginia State Capitol; fasces are used as posts...
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(12 December 2003). "Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer (1770–1825)". Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press. p. 319...
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listing of cause of death. The face was later compared to a bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon.: 114 Jones's body was brought to the United States aboard the USS Brooklyn (CA-3)...
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expressions with great sweetness and resemblance. His work recalls that of Jean-Antoine Houdon. Couasnon made a bust of Alexandrine Émilie Brogniart (b. 1780),...
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resonance with à rouer ("to be beaten up") and roué (a débauché). In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau in March 1719, Voltaire concludes by asking that, if Rousseau...
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Hubert Robert, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Jean-Antoine Watteau; sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Jacques-François-Joseph...
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(UK) & Harper (USA) in 1946. In this book, a French professor, Georges Antoine Rigaud, has written a history: Life of Cagliostro. An attempted murder...
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Schwerin/Ludwigslust/Güstrow"), with a collection of paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and busts by Jean Antoine Houdon that represent the tastes of the Mecklenburg dukes...
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Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon Bust of George Washington by Hiram Powers Bust of Thomas Jefferson by Jean-Antoine Houdon The Bronco Buster by...
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were removed from the town hall, including the one of Necker by Jean-Antoine Houdon and smashed. Like Mirabeau, the Marquis De Lafayette, Barnave and...
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portion of President George Washington's library from Mount Vernon; Jean-Antoine Houdon busts of Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Lafayette once owned...
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the obverse. He had designed the medal from a bust of Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon. Sinnock based his design for the reverse on the 1926 commemorative...
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arrived in the late 18th century gave great emphasis to sculpture. Jean-Antoine Houdon exemplifies the penetrating portrait sculpture the style could produce...
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Westphalia to Paris to study sculpture and painting. He was a pupil of Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) and Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). Flatters began exhibiting...
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Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon...
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Rigaud, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Marc Nattier, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, Thomas Lawrence, Jacques-Louis David, and Antoine-Jean Gros. Others...
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Jefferson on the obverse closely resembles his bust by sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, which is to be found in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In early May...
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Amour. Bust of Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1778), National Gallery La frileuse (woman in winter), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1783) Seated Girl by Étienne...
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Hall Collection: George Washington, in bronze, from Virginia, by Jean Antoine Houdon (copy cast in 1934). Andrew Jackson in bronze, from Tennessee, by...
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