biography
| name: |
Houdon, Jean Antoine
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pronunciation:
[oodõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1741–1828)
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| biography:
| Classical sculptor, born in Versailles, NC France. He won the Prix de Rome in 1761, spent 10 years in Rome, and there executed the colossal figure of ‘St Bruno’ in Santa Maria degli Angeli. In 1785 he visited America to execute a marble statue of Washington (Richmond, VA). His most famous busts are those of Diderot, Voltaire (foyer of the Théâtre Français, Paris), Napoleon, Catherine the Great, and Rousseau (Louvre). He was appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1805. |
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