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Jean-Antoine Houdon: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born March 20, 1741 • Versailles • France
Died July 15, 1828 (aged 87) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome (1761)
Notable Works “Diana” • “Morpheus”
Movement / Style Louis XVI style • Neoclassical art • Rococo

Photos

Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Jean-Antoine Houdon: George Washington
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Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
French sculptor
Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
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Germain Pilon
French sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
French sculptor
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
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Hiram Powers
American sculptor
Lachaise, Gaston: Head of a Woman
Gaston Lachaise
French-American sculptor
“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
Louis-François Roubiliac
French sculptor
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Guillaume Coustou
French sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
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Pierre-Jean David d’Angers
French sculptor
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor

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