Artist: Jean-antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828)
Nationality: French
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Jean-Antoine Houdon learned his trade in Paris under sculptors Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. He won the Prix de Rome and worked there from 1764 to 1768 where he was influenced by antiquity and Renaissance sculpture, primarily Michelangelo. He worked with marble, bronze, plaster, and clay. Houdon joined the Academie Royale in 1771 and became a professor seven years later. He created numerous portrait busts that were appreciated for their realism and personality. Houdon visited the United States in 1785 at the request of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin where he spent fourteen days at Mount Vernon creating a statue of George Washington. He barely survived the French Revolution and retired in 1814.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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La Naïade de Houdon (1777 en) by SAINT-AUBIN Gabriel Jacques de ; HOUDON Jean Antoine (inspiré par)
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PORTRAIT DE JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1804 vers) by BOILLY Louis Léopold
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Buste du marquis de Franquières (1792) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Etude d'après le Voltaire de Houdon (1er quart 20e siècle) by MATHEY Georges ; HOUDON Jean Antoine (d'après)
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Molière (1622-1673) (1939) by HOUDON Jean Antoine (d'après)
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Sabine Houdon, Portrait Bust, 18th century (1788) By Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828)French (Paris); Made in
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Voltaire Assis (2e quart 19e siècle) by HOUDON Jean-Antoine
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Etude d'homme nu, écorché (19e siècle) by DELACROIX Eugène ; HOUDON Jean Antoine (inspiré par)
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Portrait of George Washington, Jean-Antoine Houdon (France, Versailles, 1741 - 1828) , circa 1786, Marble
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Jean-Antoine Houdon Bust of Voltaire marble 1781
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Le Comte de la Paix de Fréminville (2e quart 19e siècle) by HOUDON Jean-Antoine
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Portrait de Madame Houdon (2e moitié 18e siècle) by PERIN-SALBREUX Lié Louis
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Buste du sculpteur Jean Antoine Houdon (4e quart 18e siècle ; 1ère moitié 19e siècle) by ISABEY Jean-Baptiste
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Jean-Antoine Houdon George Washington reduction cast bronze 19th century
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BUSTE DE JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778) (4e quart 19e siècle) by LE GOFF Elie Jules ; HOUDON Jean Antoine (d'après)
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Jules, Louis, Barbon Mazarini-Mancini (4e quart 18e siècle) by HOUDON Jean-Antoine
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Sabine Houdon à l'âge de dix mois (Paris, 1787-Paris, 1836), fille aînée du sculpteur (1788 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Diane (1790) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Portrait of Giuseppe Balsamo (called Count Alessandro Cagliostro), Jean-Antoine Houdon (France, Versailles, 1741 - 1828) , circa 1786, Plaster
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Portrait de Houdon (2e moitié 18e siècle) by PERIN-SALBREUX Lié Louis
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Jean Antoine Houdon debout, tenant le modèle de son écorché [disparu] (1854 entre ; 1855 et) by RUDE François
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Buste de Montesquieu (2e moitié 18e siècle) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Voltaire 1778 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Buste de Napoléon Ier. (3e quart 19e siècle) by HOUDON Jean Antoine (d'après)
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Buste de John Paul Jones, officier de marine américaine (1747-1792) (19e siècle) by HOUDON Jean Antoine (d'après)
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VOLTAIRE (FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET, DIT) (PARIS, 1694 ; PARIS, 1778), ECRIVAIN (1778) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Buste de Rousseau à la française (1778) by HOUDON Jean Antoine (atelier, ?)
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Apollon repoussé par le vent (1782) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (4e quart 18e siècle) by HOUDON Jean-Antoine (d'après) ; LORENZI (mouleur)
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Voltaire Seated, Jean-Antoine Houdon (France, Versailles, 1741 - 1828) , circa 1779-1795, Plaster, with vestiges of paint and terracotta slip, with metal supports; on modern painted wood base
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L'ATELIER DE JEAN HOUDON (1893) by LECESNE Maurice ; BOILLY Louis Léopold
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Jupiter et Antiope (2e moitié 18e siècle) by SAINT-AUBIN Gabriel Jacques de ; HOUDON Jean Antoine (inspiré par)
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La Comtesse de Jaucourt (née Elisabeth Sophie Gilly) (1735-1774), épouse de Louis Pierre Antoine de Jaucourt (1726-1813) (1777) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Alexandre Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Benjamin Franklin c. 1778 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Diana the Huntress 1776-95 terracotta The Frick Collection French
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Louise Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Jean Antoine Houdon - The Comtesse du Cayla 1777 marble The Frick Collection French
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Louise Brongniart (Paris, 1772-Paris, 1845), fille de l'architecte Alexandre Théodore Brongniart (1793-1813) (1777) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Cicéron (Marcus Tullius Cicero, dit) (Arpinum, vers 106 av. J.C.-?, 43 av. J.C.) (1803 après) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Condorcet (Marie, Jean, Antoine, Nicolas Caritat, marquis de) (Ribemont, 1743-Bourg-la-Reine, 1794) (1785 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Portrait d'un magistrat, présumé Jean Charles Pierre Lenoir (Paris, 1732-Paris, 1807), lieutenant général de Police de Paris (1784) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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DENIS DIDEROT (1713-1784) (1771 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jérôme Lalande (2e moitié 18e siècle) by HOUDON Jean-Antoine (sculpteur)
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La Frileuse (1793) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Mirabeau (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de) (Le Bignon, 1749 ; Paris, 1791), homme politique (1791 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Alexandre Brongniart (Paris, 1770-Paris, 1847), fils de l'architecte Alexandre Théodore Brongniart (1739-1813), futur minéralogiste et directeur de la manufacture nationale de Sèvres (1800) (1777 avant) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (Genève, 1712 ; Ermenonville, 1778), écrivain (1778) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Aymard-Jean de Nicolay, Premier President de la Chambre des Comptes 1779 marble Kimbell Art Museum French
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VESTALE (1788) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (GENEVE, 1712 ; ERMENONVILLE, 1778), ECRIVAIN (1779) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Bust of Christoph Willibald Gluck c. 1775 terracotta Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Armand-Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil 1777 marble The Frick Collection French
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Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1706-Philadelphie, 1790), savant et ministre plénipotentiaire des Etats-Unis d'Amérique auprès de la cour de France (1778 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Denis Diderot (Langres, 1713-Paris, 1784), écrivain (1775) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de) (Montbard, 1707-Paris, 1788) naturaliste, intendant du Jardin du roi (1783 vers) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Denis Diderot (Langres, 1713-Paris, 1784), écrivain (1771) by HOUDON Jean Antoine
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Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, dit) (Paris, 1694-Paris, 1778), écrivain (1778) by HOUDON Jean Antoine

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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J. Paul Getty Center: Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
More than 70 Houdon sculptures, created in marble, bronze, terracotta, and plaster, have been brought together for the first time in nearly two centuries, demonstrating the remarkable degree of insight and physical accuracy that the sculptor incor...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: Art of Rome in the 18th Century
In the 18th century, Rome's civic and religious leaders commissioned exceptional artists from throughout Europe to construct and embellish churches, palaces, fountains, public ...

Further Artwork and Information:

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean-Antoine Houdon
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
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