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Er war in Frankreich, Deutschland, Russland, Italien und den Vereinigten Staaten tätig und galt als erfolgreichster Porträtbildhauer seiner Zeit. Er verstand es, wie kaum ein anderer zeitgenössischer Bildhauer, die feinen Züge seiner Modelle zu erfassen und deren Charakter in Marmor zu formen.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (* 25. März 1741 in Versailles; † 15. Juli 1828 in Paris) war ein französischer Bildhauer des Klassizismus. Jean-Antoine Houdon wurde durch zahlreiche Statuen und Porträtbüsten im auslaufenden 18. Jahrhundert bekannt.
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.
Jean Antoine Houdon, the preeminent sculptor of the French Enlightenment, was primarily known for his portraiture, a specialization that brought him fame among his contemporaries and posterity alike, despite a lack of parallel achievement on the more monumental scale.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (born March 20, 1741, Versailles, France—died July 15, 1828, Paris) was a French sculptor whose religious and mythological works are definitive expressions of the 18th-century Rococo style of sculpture.
Houdon was the preeminent sculptor of the age of French Enlightenment. He left his signature on this most turbulent period in French social and political history by sculpting "living" portraits of visitors from foreign courts and governments, many of France's leading thinkers, and glamorous singers and actors of the Parisian stage.
Jean Antoine Houdon French. 1778. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 717. Houdon's bust of Franklin was the first of his canonical portraits of leading figures in American history, among them Washington, Jefferson, John Paul Jones, the Marquis de Lafayette and Robert Fulton (1989.329).
