Jean-Antoine Houdon

French neoclassical sculptor

1741 CE to 1828 CE

Jean-Antoine Houdon (20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) is a French neoclassical sculptor.

Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.

Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803–04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).

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